Goodbye To All That
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
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One of the most searing and celebrated autobiographies of the twentieth century, Goodbye to All That stands as Robert Graves's unflinching farewell to the world that shaped and nearly destroyed him — a memoir of extraordinary candour tracing his youth in Edwardian England, his harrowing service on the Western Front during the First World War, and his ultimate, disillusioned break from British society. Graves chronicles the mud and carnage of the trenches with the precision of a survivor and the lyricism of a poet, rendering the psychological and physical devastation of industrial warfare with an immediacy that still shocks nearly a century after its first publication in 1929. Beyond its vivid battle sequences, the memoir illuminates the rigid class structures, public school conventions, and patriotic mythologies that sent a generation of young men to their deaths with appalling certainty. Graves writes with a sardonic wit that cuts through sentimentality, presenting his own trauma and alienation not as a cry for pity but as a clear-eyed indictment of the institutions he once served. A foundational text of Great War literature — alongside Siegfried Sassoon's Memoirs of an Infantry Officer and Wilfred Owen's poetry — it raises a question that lingers long after the final page: what does a man owe a civilization that has forfeited its claim on him?
Author: Robert Graves
Format: Paperback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
One of the most searing and celebrated autobiographies of the twentieth century, Goodbye to All That stands as Robert Graves's unflinching farewell to the world that shaped and nearly destroyed him — a memoir of extraordinary candour tracing his youth in Edwardian England, his harrowing service on the Western Front during the First World War, and his ultimate, disillusioned break from British society. Graves chronicles the mud and carnage of the trenches with the precision of a survivor and the lyricism of a poet, rendering the psychological and physical devastation of industrial warfare with an immediacy that still shocks nearly a century after its first publication in 1929. Beyond its vivid battle sequences, the memoir illuminates the rigid class structures, public school conventions, and patriotic mythologies that sent a generation of young men to their deaths with appalling certainty. Graves writes with a sardonic wit that cuts through sentimentality, presenting his own trauma and alienation not as a cry for pity but as a clear-eyed indictment of the institutions he once served. A foundational text of Great War literature — alongside Siegfried Sassoon's Memoirs of an Infantry Officer and Wilfred Owen's poetry — it raises a question that lingers long after the final page: what does a man owe a civilization that has forfeited its claim on him?