Description
Book Synopsis''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.
Trade ReviewOne of the classic accounts of the Western Front * The Times *
Wonderful -- Jeremy Paxman * Daily Mail *
From the moment of its first appearance an established classic * Observer *
One of the most candid self-portraits of a poet, warts and all, ever painted * The Times Literary Supplement *
