Undertones of War (1930, first revised edition)
Edmund Blunden's classic Great War memoir
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Printing Details
Reprint (1st Revised edition). Hardback, bound in black cloth with red titling to spine. 22.5 × 14.5cm, 327pp.
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.
Condition
A good reading copy. Some rubbing and bumping to the cloth, a slight lean to the spine and spotted foxing to the page edges but otherwise remaining in strong readable condition.
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Price
£12.00
