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Undertones of War by Edmund Blunden: New
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Publication Date
- 2007-11-01
- Pages
- 252
- ISBN
- 9780226061764
- Book Title
- Undertones of War
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Item Length
- 8 in
- Publication Year
- 2007
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8 in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, History
- Topic
- Military / World War I, Military
- Item Weight
- 10.1 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.2 in
- Number of Pages
- 252 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
0226061760
ISBN-13
9780226061764
eBay Product ID (ePID)
60090959
Product Key Features
Book Title
Undertones of War
Number of Pages
252 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Military / World War I, Military
Publication Year
2007
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
10.1 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2007-022665
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
940.4/81/42
Table Of Content
Preliminary Preface to the Second Edition i The Path without Primroses ii Trench Education iii The Cherry Orchard iv The Sudden Depths v Contrasts vi Specimen of the War of Attrition vii Steel Helmets for All viii The Calm ix The Storm x A Home from Home xi Very Secret xii Caesar Went into Winter Quarters xiii The Impossible Happens xiv An Ypres Christmas xv Theatre of War xvi A German Performance xvii Departures xviii Domesticities xix The Spring Passes xx Like Samson in his Wrath xxi The Crash of Pillars xxii Backwaters xxiii The Cataract xxiv 1917 in Fading Light xxv Coming of Age xxvi School, not at Wittenberg xxvii My Luck A Supplement of Poetical Interpretations and Variations A House in Festubert The Guard's Mistake Two Voices Illusions Escape Preparations for Victory Come On, My Lucky Lads At Senlis Once The Zonnebeke Road Trench Raid near Hooge Concert Party: Busseboom Rural Economy E. W. T.: On the Death of his Betty Battalion in Rest Vlamertinghe: Passing the Chatêau, July, 1917 Third Ypres Pillbox The Welcome Gouzeaucourt: The Deceitful Calm The Prophet II Peter ii Recognition La Quinque Rue The Ancre at Hamel: Afterwards 'Trench Nomenclature' A.G.A.V. Their Very Memory On Reading that the Rebuilding of Ypres approached Completion Another Journey from Béthune to Cuinchy Flanders Now Return of the Native The Watchers
Synopsis
"I took my road with no little pride of fear; one morning I feared very sharply, as I saw what looked like a rising shroud over a wooden cross in the clustering mist. Horror! But on a closer study I realized that the apparition was only a flannel gas helmet. . . . What an age since 1914!" In Undertones of War , one of the finest autobiographies to come out of World War I, the acclaimed poet Edmund Blunden records his devastating experiences in combat. After enlisting at the age of twenty, he took part in the disastrous battles at the Somme, Ypres, and Passchendaele, describing them as "murder, not only to the troops but to their singing faiths and hopes." All the horrors of trench warfare, all the absurdity and feeble attempts to make sense of the fighting, all the strangeness of observing war as a writer-of being simultaneously soldier and poet-pervade Blunden's memoir. In steely-eyed prose as richly allusive as any poetry, he tells of the endurance and despair found among the men of his battalion, including the harrowing acts of bravery that won him the Military Cross. Now back in print for American readers, the volume includes a selection of Blunden's war poems that unflinchingly juxtapose death in the trenches with the beauty of Flanders's fields. Undertones of War deserves a place on anyone's bookshelf between Siegfried Sassoon's poetry and Robert Graves's Goodbye to All That ., "I took my road with no little pride of fear; one morning I feared very sharply, as I saw what looked like a rising shroud over a wooden cross in the clustering mist. Horror! But on a closer study I realized that the apparition was only a flannel gas helmet. . . . What an age since 1914!" In Undertones of War , one of the finest autobiographies to come out of World War I, the acclaimed poet Edmund Blunden records his devastating experiences in combat. After enlisting at the age of twenty, he took part in the disastrous battles at the Somme, Ypres, and Passchendaele, describing them as "murder, not only to the troops but to their singing faiths and hopes." All the horrors of trench warfare, all the absurdity and feeble attempts to make sense of the fighting, all the strangeness of observing war as a writer--of being simultaneously soldier and poet--pervade Blunden's memoir. In steely-eyed prose as richly allusive as any poetry, he tells of the endurance and despair found among the men of his battalion, including the harrowing acts of bravery that won him the Military Cross. Now back in print for American readers, the volume includes a selection of Blunden's war poems that unflinchingly juxtapose death in the trenches with the beauty of Flanders's fields. Undertones of War deserves a place on anyone's bookshelf between Siegfried Sassoon's poetry and Robert Graves's Goodbye to All That ., "I took my road with no little pride of fear; one morning I feared very sharply, as I saw what looked like a rising shroud over a wooden cross in the clustering mist. Horror But on a closer study I realized that the apparition was only a flannel gas helmet. . . . What an age since 1914 " In Undertones of War , one of the finest autobiographies to come out of World War I, the acclaimed poet Edmund Blunden records his devastating experiences in combat. After enlisting at the age of twenty, he took part in the disastrous battles at the Somme, Ypres, and Passchendaele, describing them as "murder, not only to the troops but to their singing faiths and hopes." All the horrors of trench warfare, all the absurdity and feeble attempts to make sense of the fighting, all the strangeness of observing war as a writer-of being simultaneously soldier and poet-pervade Blunden's memoir. In steely-eyed prose as richly allusive as any poetry, he tells of the endurance and despair found among the men of his battalion, including the harrowing acts of bravery that won him the Military Cross. Now back in print for American readers, the volume includes a selection of Blunden's war poems that unflinchingly juxtapose death in the trenches with the beauty of Flanders's fields. Undertones of War deserves a place on anyone's bookshelf between Siegfried Sassoon's poetry and Robert Graves's Goodbye to All That .
LC Classification Number
D640.B5833 2007
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