Goodbye To All That, Robert Graves, c. 1929 -- With Introduction By Miranda Seymour

 First included in Everyman's Library, 2018.

Goodbye To All That, Robert Graves, c. 1929.

From the jacket, it begin: 

"One of the best and most famous memoirs of WWI was written a decade after the conflict's end, as the poet and novelist Robert Graves was preparing to leave England for good. Goodbye To All That was controversial in its time and has since become a classic, notable for the way it documents not only his personal experience of the horrors and disillusionment of battle but also the wider loss of innocence the Great War brought about."

Introduction, vii - xix.

Goodbye to All That
The White Goddess

Prolific career:

• 55 collections of poems
• 43 works of non-fiction
• ten translations
• fifteen novels
• one play

GTAT: his only major work of autobiography.

At the time he wrote this book, many veterans of WWI had recently written of their experiences in the trenches.

"Like Graves himself, Ford, Remarque and Sherriff, all of whome had served at the front, viewed war as an essentially futile venture, in which exceptional acts of loyalty and courage became the norm." -- p. ix

Really, really, really a good book on WWI.

To Germany, Robert Graves felt a powerful bond. p. ix

 

Maternal side: German, von Ranke
Pateernal side: French --> Ireland -->

Page 8: the family lineage. Includes a great-uncle or nearly by the name of Robert Graves who was the physician that gave the name to Graves Disease. 

Graves identified the disease in 1835; a Germany physician identified the same disease in 1840 and therefore, in Germany, the disease is better known as "Basedow syndrome" or similar but with Basedow in  the name of the disease.