‘There has been a lot of fighting hereabouts. The trenches have made themselves rather than been made, and run inconsequently in and out of the big thirty-foot high stacks of bricks; it is most confusing. The parapet of a trench which we don't occupy is built up with ammunition boxes and corpses . . .’

In one of the most honest and open self-portraits ever put to paper, Robert Graves recounts the remarkable story of his experiences as a young officer in World War I. He describes life in the trenches with vivid, raw detail, how the dehumanizing horrors he witnessed left him shaken. These would haunt him for the rest of his life.

Pages: 368, Dimensions: 11.1x11.1cm