Editions

Goodbye to All That

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780241951415

  • Length: 368  Pages

  • Dimensions: 181mm x 22mm x 111mm

  • Weight: 201g

  • RRP: £8.99

Goodbye to All That

'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.

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780241951415

  • Length: 368  Pages

  • Dimensions: 181mm x 22mm x 111mm

  • Weight: 201g

  • RRP: £8.99

Reviews

  • One 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

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About the Author

Robert Graves

Robert Graves was born in 1895 in Wimbledon. He went from school to the First World War, where he became a captain in the Royal Welch Fusiliers and was seriously wounded at the Battle of the Somme. He wrote his autobiography, Goodbye to All That, in 1929, and it was soon established as a modern classic. He died on 7 December 1985 in Majorca, his home since 1929.

Robert Graves

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Extracts

5 moving poems from the men on the frontline of the Somme

The camaraderie forged between soldiers during the horrors of World War I inspired some of the greatest verse in English Literature. Here to mark Remembrance Day are some of our favourites.
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Podcasts

Writing the First World War feat. Jeremy Paxman, Robert Graves and Pat Barker

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