Modern Classics Undertones of War (Penguin Modern Classics)

Modern Classics Undertones of War (Penguin Modern Classics) image
ISBN-10:

0141184361

ISBN-13:

9780141184364

Author(s): BLUNDEN, Edmund
Released: Dec 21, 2010
Publisher: Penguin Classic
Format: Paperback, 272 pages
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Description:

In what is one of the finest autobiographies to come out of the First World War, the distinguished poet Edmund Blunden records his experiences as an infantry subaltern in France and Flanders. Blunden took part in the disastrous battles of the Somme, Ypres and Passchendaele, describing the latter as 'murder, not only to the troops, but to their singing faiths and hopes'. In his compassionate yet unsentimental prose, he tells of the heroism and despair found among the officers. Blunden's poems show how he found hope in the natural landscape; the only thing that survives the terrible betrayal enacted in the Flanders fields.












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