Undertones of War

(12)
Undertones of War image
ISBN-10:

0226061760

ISBN-13:

9780226061764

Author(s): BLUNDEN, Edmund
Edition: University of Chicag
Released: Nov 01, 2007
Format: Paperback, 252 pages

Description:

“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.

Best prices to buy, sell, or rent ISBN 9780226061764




Related Books

Frequently Asked Questions about Undertones of War

You can buy the Undertones of War book at one of 20+ online bookstores with BookScouter, the website that helps find the best deal across the web. Currently, the best offer comes from and is $ for the .

The price for the book starts from $7.59 on Amazon and is available from 40 sellers at the moment.

If you’re interested in selling back the Undertones of War book, you can always look up BookScouter for the best deal. BookScouter checks 30+ buyback vendors with a single search and gives you actual information on buyback pricing instantly.

As for the Undertones of War book, the best buyback offer comes from and is $ for the book in good condition.

The Undertones of War book is in very low demand now as the rank for the book is 1,509,635 at the moment. A rank of 1,000,000 means the last copy sold approximately a month ago.

The highest price to sell back the Undertones of War book within the last three months was on November 08 and it was $0.60.