Graves revised Good-Bye to All That in 1957 at the request of an American publisher. His suffering shows in the disjointed methods he usedcombining excerpts from letters, poems by himself and others, army commands and ramblings to create a sense of the disorder he had felt since his time in battle. The book was published in 1929, more than ten years after the war's end, at a time when, like many writers who had lived through the war, Graves was still suffering from the trauma of fighting and was angry about the whole concept of war. Graves' factual tone makes the remarkable seem unremarkable and the ordinary seem well worth examining. The descriptions of battle are horrifying, and the descriptions of military bungling and pomposity are darkly amusing. There were many fine, powerful memoirs published about the First World War, and Robert Graves' Good-Bye to All That is considered to be one of the most honest and insightful.
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