'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.
| ISBN: | 9780241951415 |
| Publication date: | 7th April 2011 |
| Author: | Robert Graves |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 368 pages |
| Series: | Penguin Essentials |
| Genres: |
Autobiography: general Literary studies: poetry and poets Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 First World War |