Goodbye To All That
Author: Robert Graves
Robert Graves’s autobiography tells the story of his life at public school and as a young officer during the first world war.From the publisher’s website (2011):”Robert Graves’s marvellously candid self-portrait of his childhood and his experiences as a young officer in the First World War Graves entered the war in 1914 and he describes in vivid, raw detail life in the tre….Read More
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