Goodbye to All That - Graves Robert
Goodbye to All That - Graves Robert 'There has been a lot of fighting hereabouts. The parapet of a trench which we don't occupy is built up with ammunition boxes and corpses'. The trenches have made…
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Goodbye to All That - Graves Robert
'There has been a lot of fighting hereabouts. The parapet of a trench which we don't occupy is built up with ammunition boxes and corpses'. 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.
He describes life in the trenches in vivid, raw detail, how the dehumanizing horrors he witnessed left him shell-shocked. 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. They were to haunt him for the rest of his life.