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A review by mpetty3
Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography by Robert Graves
4.0
I don't read many autobiographies, nor do I usually subscribe to the rather heavy handed memoirs of wars or battles and how much they suck, which is probably why I liked this book so much. raves recounts his experience in WWI without any real feel for history. That is to say, he doesn't seem to be writing for the express purpose of posterity.
He doesn't write solely about the horrors of trench warfare, the severed body parts, suffocating gas attacks or overall pervading theme of death. He relays stories about everyday activities. The cricket game with the dead parrot still in the cage for instance, is an example of how they carried on with normal life (even if life included a fair amount of death) Sometimes the sheer absurdity of this everyday life is comical. I laughed aloud(in humor and disbelief) when the British soldier is commended for killing a French civilian and "aggressively combating defeatism"
Overall it was an excellent look at not only the war, but the culture that reared the men who fought it. After all, it is the individual that matters, not the countries involved.
He doesn't write solely about the horrors of trench warfare, the severed body parts, suffocating gas attacks or overall pervading theme of death. He relays stories about everyday activities. The cricket game with the dead parrot still in the cage for instance, is an example of how they carried on with normal life (even if life included a fair amount of death) Sometimes the sheer absurdity of this everyday life is comical. I laughed aloud(in humor and disbelief) when the British soldier is commended for killing a French civilian and "aggressively combating defeatism"
Overall it was an excellent look at not only the war, but the culture that reared the men who fought it. After all, it is the individual that matters, not the countries involved.