![]() Graves served as an officer on active duty for the entire duration of the war, though he almost didn’t make it through. This made him just the right age to head off to war as soon as he exited his prep school (Charterhouse) in 1914. Robert von Ranke Graves was born in 1895 to a mother with connections to the German nobility (hence the von Ranke), and an Anglo-Irish father, the respected Gaelic folklorist and scholar Alfred Perceval Graves. Don’t let that discourage you – it’s not at all a “boring school book”, and it is very much worth reading for the highly opinionated voice of the author as much as for its historical context. Robert Graves’ memoir has already received much publicity and is, I believe, frequently used in schools and colleges. ![]() ![]() Revised edition, with text amendments, Prologue and Epilogue added by the author in 1957. ![]() Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves ~ 1929. ![]()
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