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Good-Bye to All That provides a detailed description of trench warfare, including the tragic incompetence of the Battle of Loos, including the use of gas, and the bitter fighting in the first phase of the Somme Offensive.
- Robert Graves
- 1929
An autobiographical work that describes firsthand the great tectonic shifts in English society following the First World War, Robert Graves's Goodbye to All That is a matchless evocation of the Great War's haunting legacy, published in Penguin Modern Classics.
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Good-Bye to All That, autobiography by Robert Graves, published in 1929 and revised in 1957. It is considered a classic of the disillusioned postwar generation. Divided into anecdotal scenes and satiric episodes, Good-Bye to All That is infused with a dark humour.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Divided into anecdotal scenes and satiric episodes, Good-Bye to All That is infused with a dark humor. It chronicles the author's experiences as a student at Charterhouse School in London and as a teenaged soldier in France during World War I, where he sustained severe wounds in combat.
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- Robert Graves
- $12.99
- Vintage
Tracing his upbringing from his solidly middle-class Victorian childhood through his entry into the war at age twenty-one as a patriotic captain in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, this dramatic, poignant, often wry autobiography goes on to depict the horrors and disillusionment of the Great War, from life in the trenches and the loss of dear friends,...
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- Anchor
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- Robert Graves
Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves; Introduction by Miranda Seymour. On the hundredth anniversary of the end of World War I: a hardcover edition of one of the best and most famous memoirs of the conflict.
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Dec 9, 2020 · 281 pages ; 20 cm. 'Goodbye to all that' is Robert Graves' candid self-portrait of his childhood and his experiences as a young officer in the World War I. Originally published: London: Cassell, 1957. Access-restricted-item. true.
