Robert Graves: Goodbye to All That
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- Kategoria: yhteiskunta & politiikka, alakategoria: maanpuolustus
- Materiaali: Nidottu
- Kustantaja: Penguin Books
- Kieli: englanti
- ISBN: 9780241951415
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'There has been a lot of fighting hereabouts. The trenches have made themselves rather than been made, and run inconsequently in and out of the big thirty-foot high stacks of bricks; it is most confusing. The parapet of a trench which we don't occupy is built up with ammunition boxes and corpses […] ' In one of the most honest and candid self-portraits ever committed to paper, Robert Graves tells the extraordinary story of his experiences as a young officer in the First World War. He describes life in the trenches in vivid, raw detail, how the dehumanizing horrors he witnessed left him shell-shocked. They were to haunt him for the rest of his life.