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An autobiographical work that describes firsthand the great tectonic shifts in English society from the First World War, Robert Graves's Goodbye to All That is a pointed evocation of the Great War's haunting legacy. In 1929 Robert Graves went to live abroad permanently, vowing 'never to make England my home again'. This is his superb account of his life up until that 'bitter leave-taking': from his childhood and desperately unhappy school days at Charterhouse, to his time serving as a young officer in the First World War that was to haunt him throughout his life. It also contains memorable encounters with fellow writers and poets, including Siegfried Sassoon and Thomas Hardy, and covers his increasingly unhappy marriage to Nancy Nicholson. Goodbye to All That, with its vivid, harrowing descriptions of the Western Front, is a classic war document, and also has immense value as one of the most candid self-portraits of an artist ever written.
This is a Folio Society slipcased edition, 295pp, 1981) - full cloth printed with a WW1 illustration, gold spine lettering to spine, illustrated internally with 14 b&w illustrations, maps of the western front to endpapers. Introduction by Raleigh Trevelyan.
Internally book is very good the plain unlettered slipcase has marks edgewear and scuffs externally, as well as light spotting to the slipcase externally.
One of the best books in English to come from the First World War.
