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Undertones Of War (Paperback)
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Undertones Of War (Paperback)
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Loot Price R341
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"I took my road with no little pride of fear; one morning I feared
very sharply, as I saw what looked like a rising shroud over a
wooden cross in the clustering mist. Horror! But on a closer study
I realized that the apparition was only a flannel gas helmet. . . .
What an age since 1914!"
In "Undertones of War," one of the finest autobiographies to come
out of World War I, the acclaimed poet Edmund Blunden records his
devastating experiences in combat. After enlisting at the age of
twenty, he took part in the disastrous battles at the Somme, Ypres,
and Passchendaele, describing them as "murder, not only to the
troops but to their singing faiths and hopes."
All the horrors of trench warfare, all the absurdity and feeble
attempts to make sense of the fighting, all the strangeness of
observing war as a writer--of being simultaneously soldier and
poet--pervade Blunden's memoir. In steely-eyed prose as richly
allusive as any poetry, he tells of the endurance and despair found
among the men of his battalion, including the harrowing acts of
bravery that won him the Military Cross.
Now back in print for American readers, the volume includes a
selection of Blunden's war poems that unflinchingly juxtapose death
in the trenches with the beauty of Flanders's fields. "Undertones
of War "deserves a place on anyone's bookshelf between Siegfried
Sassoon's poetry and Robert Graves's "Goodbye to All That,"
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