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Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography

by Robert Graves

4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 · rating details · 6,127 ratings · 404 reviews

The quintessential memoir of the generation of Englishmen who suffered in WWI is among the bitterest autobiographies ever written. Robert Graves's stripped-to-the-bone prose seethes with contempt for his class, his country, his military superiors & the civilians who mindlessly cheered the carnage from the safety of home. His portrait of the stupidity & petty cruelt ...more

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Published February 1st 1958 by Anchor Books (first published 1929)

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Aug 03, 2014 Paul rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: world-war-one

Another book in the series I am reading about WW1. It was interesting reading this in conjunction with A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor; I found Graves much less likeable than Fermor. However this is a very powerful description of the war and life in the trenches; it also covers Graves’s life before the war and until 1929.
Graves was half German and half Irish and had a German middle name. This meant he had a very difficult time at public school (Charterhouse) as war with Germany gradually Another book in the series I am reading about WW1. It was interesting reading this in conjunction with A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor; I found Graves much less likeable than Fermor. However this is a very powerful description of the war and life in the trenches; it also covers Graves’s life before the war and until 1929.
Graves was half German and half Irish and had a German middle name. This meant he had a very difficult time at public school (Charterhouse) as war with Germany gradually became inevitable. What saved Graves at Charterhouse was learning to box and one of the masters, George Mallory (later to die on Everest) who came across as a good man and taught Graves to climb. Graves joined the army at the beginning of the war and remained in it throughout in a variety of roles. He was reckless at times; on holiday in Switzerland he decided it would be a good idea to ski down the skeleton bob run (he survived) and this showed at times in his approach to the war.
What Graves does excel at is describing army life in the trenches; the comradeship, tensions, the idiocy of senior officers (which he describes in cutting detail), the dangers, the squalor and the immediate risk of death. Forays into no man’s land, encounters with the enemy and with dead and decomposing bodies; some of the accounts are horrific; yet one feels even then that Graves holds back a little. What makes this account so good is Graves’s detachment. He describes leading virtually suicidal missions in a workaday way. He knew the generals were clueless. The daily interactions with the other soldiers are fascinating. Graves also describes the onset of “shell shock” and war weariness and this is also very interesting; the contrast between patriotism at home and the feeling of the insanity of it all which pervaded most of those at the front.
Graves suffered his share of injuries and was seriously wounded at the Somme, so badly that his family were sent a telegram announcing his death; he arrived in London shortly after the telegram. Graves also describes the condition known as shellshock and very matter of factly describes his nightmares and psychological disturbances. The lightness of touch and humour makes the description of the horrors even more powerful.
Graves describes his interactions with other poets; Sassoon, Owen, Blunden amongst others, which are always fascinating. His interactions with medical boards and senior officers are also illuminating. Graves’s detachment makes it difficult sometimes to locate him in all this and I suspect from his descriptions of his sufferings that this is a defence mechanism.
The post war reflections are less powerful, but a number of things stand out. Graves married Nancy Nicholson, daughter of the artist Sir William Nicholson. She was a feminist who kept her own name and ensured their children had her name. When they lived in Oxfordshire she used to cycle around the villages explaining contraception to the women (it was still illegal at the time). She was later a fabric designer. She struck me as someone whose biography I would like to read. When Robert and Nancy visited Thomas Hardy she mentioned that she had kept her own name, expecting him to be scandalised. However he thought it rather old-fashioned as he recalled that when he was a boy many women did keep their own name on marriage!
The other post war figure that stood out was T E Lawrence, who met Graves at Oxford. He was clearly damaged by his life experiences and avoided any physical closeness. But he was a man of great principle; he wrote about his experiences in the war in two bestselling books. He decided that he could not personally profit from the Arab revolt and ensured the royalties went to a variety of charities.
I was slightly ambivalent about Graves himself, but this is a well written and informative account of great horrors and the pointlessness of war; and Graves is an excellent and gripping narrator.
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Mar 28, 2013 ·Karen· rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: biography-memoir

In 1929 Robert Graves (aged 33) went abroad, "resolved never to make England my home again;" which explains the title. However this autobiography does little to illuminate that decision: in an epilogue he says that "a conditioning in the Protestant morality of the English governing classes, though qualified by mixed blood, a rebellious nature, and an overriding poetic obsession, is not easily outgrown." Nor is it easily escaped when writing about your own life: one thing that does not feature is ...more

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Aug 04, 2014 Kim rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: history-and-memoir , non-fiction , kindle , wwi

This is a good year to read about World War I and there's no shortage of new material out there for anyone interested in the subject. However, this is a work that has been around for a very long time: since 1929, in fact. Published when Graves was just thirty-four, he wrote in the prologue to the revised edition published in 1957 that the work was his "bitter leave-taking of England" where he had recently "broken a good many conventions". It signalled Graves' departure for Spain, where he lived ...more

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Feb 02, 2014 Erwin rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: autobiography , world-war-1

This is Robert Graves's autobiography which he finished in 1929 at the age of 32 or 33. Fortunately, his life didn't end there but as he said himself, many years later, his life after that wasn't worth writing about (again). In his memoirs, he mostly talks about his experiences during the Great War, as an officer in the British Army ( the Royal Welch; yes Welch with a c). This work is a honest, no nonsense piece of art/literature. It was a pleasant and accessible read. I highly recommend this wo ...more

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Feb 04, 2015 ^ rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: autobiography , non-fiction , war , books-with-1001-to-10000-ratings , review-liked , author-male , y-1921-1930

The back cover blurb describes the contents of this volume as “candid” .
That puzzled me until well into the text I realised that this was perhaps Robert Graves’ personal survival stratagem. My grandfather’s was quite the reverse; only once, and when I was ill, did he talk to me of his military service in the Great War.

Are there events where it is literally healthier for our psyche that we remember and learn from simple and candid fact, rather than spend excessive time in introspection attemptin ...more

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Dec 22, 2013 Tyler rated it 2 of 5 stars

Recommends it for: Anyone

Recommended to Tyler by: WWI Bibliography

Shelves: gay-interest

Herbert Marcuse describes in One-dimensional Man a world where clashing ideas are held together in a way that makes them impossible to evaluate. We see this with the current PBS ads which, in service to some obscene aesthetic, combine classical opera with film of a napalm attack on Vietnam. A kindred juxtaposition makes the technique of Goodbye to All That recognizably modern. Graves relates his life in a succession of caricatures that shift between the comic and the horrific. Young Graves faces Herbert Marcuse describes in One-dimensional Man a world where clashing ideas are held together in a way that makes them impossible to evaluate. We see this with the current PBS ads which, in service to some obscene aesthetic, combine classical opera with film of a napalm attack on Vietnam. A kindred juxtaposition makes the technique of Goodbye to All That recognizably modern. Graves relates his life in a succession of caricatures that shift between the comic and the horrific. Young Graves faces two hurdles: British boarding school and World War I. It’s his accounts of both that bring this book fame. But is it really all that?

In upper class schools for boys we find, as the story begins, bastions of intramural sex that administrators ignore. Graves takes a partner, Dick, as a matter of inveterate custom; his tone tells us it would be in bad form to register much more than a raised eyebrow over this. True, it’s not as graphic as Céline’s frank account of British boarding school in Death on the Installment Plan . But later comes a kind of punch line. Dick gets arrested for coming on to an officer. Graves denounces him, realizing, apparently for the first time, that Dick really is “like that.” I’m not gay, Graves tells us, but my boyfriend is. Having torn the mask off British boarding school, Graves, we find, has adapted to its carnal secrets quite nicely, thank you. Wickedly funny, sir. Take a bow but please, no encore.

Adapting to anything is the link that gets us from sex to war. One moment finds Graves killing Krauts and tripping into rotting corpses; next thing you know he and Siegfried Sassoon are sitting in the grass reciting poetry. Graves plays on this contrast between Britain’s home front dream of war and France’s reality. These absurd transitions take events in stride without regard to their moral status. Graves chronicles them. Conclusions are left to the reader.

A light touch helps sidestep the in any case inexplicable enormity of the Great War. But at this point we run up against the circularity of the author’s worldview. Implicit in the book is a concession that the system that causes war is its own raison d’etre . This undertone weakens the farce we might otherwise notice. The memoir is in part a comedy of evil; but Graves’s comical approach, because of his dry class humor, often turns a fuming crime into a desiccated absurdity. It’s hard to read the theatricality the way the author may have meant it.

A puritanical upper class conformist, Graves is content to be part of the state of affairs he excoriates. The book's light moments rely on a satire of manners that plays to his immense vanity; the rich details of a catered life flesh out various sketches – every faux pas made, the style of the place settings, his illustrious friends and family, the weave of the many strings he pulls. He drops names with astonishing recall, and I certainly can’t deny his entitlements. Yet it’s hard to effectively attack this system from within. The sheer scale of the evil doesn’t yield easily to jaunty farce. Readers in our day can only too well see World War II just dying to climb out from these pages.

Fans of satire might disagree with me as to how effectively it works here. But I can safely say that this is not the scorching declamation of injustice one might be led to expect. Even so, this important war memoir received special attention in the elegantly conceived The Great War and Modern Memory . Graves’s book is in fact well structured and well written, containing all the effects that make for good storytelling. It’s a precise read that doesn’t tarry too long on any one point and an unexpected page turner.

The particular attraction of Goodbye to All That is for students of World War I, fans of memoirs, people who like poetry (although the book contains none) and poets, and anyone curious about the scandal endemic to boarding schools. On the other hand, readers outside these categories may find in this autobiography an insufferable litany of manners, titles, class, ego and conformity. Proceed, but with realistic expectations.
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Trisha It never ceases to amaze me how people can use the anonymity of the internet as a license to say things they would most likely never say face to face. ...more
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Susan Found it oddly callow, snobby and bigoted - the only soldiers who committed atrocities seemed to be black or Australian, and the Scots were portrayed ...more
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Jan 15, 2014 Paul Bryant rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: history-will-teach-us-nothing

It's 2014 - and the centenary of World War One. I heard a discussion about it the other day and one thing struck me. The idea being suggested was that it would have been BETTER FOR EVERYONE if Germany had WON the First World War. How about that! I never thought of it before, but the logic was compelling. Germany's victory would have stifled Hitler's political career before it got going. There would have been no Versailles treaty, no reparations, no financial catastrophe.....

No Nazis.

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Dec 16, 2013 Bruce rated it 2 of 5 stars

I read this book for several reasons. Recently I have been interested in learning more about the transition from Edwardian England to the years following WW I, about the changes in society and in the attitudes of the people of England as they faced the alterations in their domestic and imperial situation and aspirations. I also am interested in knowing more about the English “War Poets,” both those who survived the conflict and those who did not. Finally, I enjoyed reading Graves’ novel I, Claud I read this book for several reasons. Recently I have been interested in learning more about the transition from Edwardian England to the years following WW I, about the changes in society and in the attitudes of the people of England as they faced the alterations in their domestic and imperial situation and aspirations. I also am interested in knowing more about the English “War Poets,” both those who survived the conflict and those who did not. Finally, I enjoyed reading Graves’ novel I, Claudius many years ago, and I have been wanting to read more of his prose writing.

This autobiography can be broken down into three sections. The first relates Graves’ life during his childhood until at age 19 the War broke out and he joined the army. The middle portion, by far the longest, relates his wartime experiences, primarily in the trenches in France. The short third section describes his post-war life until 1929. The first part was interesting in that it provided not only a picture of Graves’ own experiences but also one view of Edwardian life and society, albeit a narrow one since no attempt was made to be panoramic in perspective. But it did enable one to understand a bit of who Graves was on the brink of war. Part two gave a chronological account of Graves’ war experiences during his three to four years of service. Part three discussed his first marriage, his unsettled occupational ventures, and his continuing activity as a poet and writer of prose.

I confess that even as I found the book interesting I also was disappointed in it in several respects. The account of his childhood provided only a limited perspective on English society in its broadest sense, and his wartime accounts, while detailed, were often emotionally detached and gave little appreciation of their emotional impact on either him or those around him. The last part was almost perfunctory, as if he were trying to finish the book as quickly as possible, having lost interest in it altogether. His portrayal of life in Egypt where he took a job for a couple of years is frankly sneering in the worst-of-Kipling sense, his inclusion of the inept writings of his students unnecessarily ridiculing.

In summary, I am still looking for literature that will provide more of a sense of Edwardian England’s ambiance. With regard to the War years and the authors who experienced them, I found Pat Barker’s The Regeneration Trilogy much more satisfying. Finally, I would like to read literature that more carefully and thoroughly discusses England’s post-War changes and transitions.
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Aug 30, 2015 Nooilforpacifists rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: british-history , world-war-one-history , british-biography

The human mind invariably seeks patterns. And so, reading WWI histories always has been frustrating because of the war's Brownian motion; the inability to discern any strategy at all. So the great value of Graves's anti-war memoir is that, as a Captain in Welch regiment, he had no clue about, and thus does not write about, the larger strategy of the war. He confines his pen to tactics, and the tactics he observed are damning. Lesson one, btw, is that the surest way to lose public support for war ...more

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Mar 19, 2015 Teresa rated it 4 of 5 stars

The lines that have stayed with me after finishing this book are those Graves wrote about his time in Oxford after the war, when he was experiencing vivid "daydreams" of trench warfare. It's obvious now that those 'dreams' were flashbacks -- I'm guessing the term hadn't been invented yet -- and Graves says they were always of his first four months in the trenches, that his "feeling-apparatus" (Graves' words) had shut down after that time.

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Sep 08, 2010 Szplug rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Robert Graves, an English poet, writer, and proponent of the White Goddess mythology of muses - all done with considerable talent - penned his autobiography in 1927, while still in his early thirties; even at such a relatively young age, he burned with the need to set to paper the traumatic and disillusioning experiences that seared him during his military service in World War One. Graves, a product of the British class system, forthrightly details his formative years amongst the upper echelon a Robert Graves, an English poet, writer, and proponent of the White Goddess mythology of muses - all done with considerable talent - penned his autobiography in 1927, while still in his early thirties; even at such a relatively young age, he burned with the need to set to paper the traumatic and disillusioning experiences that seared him during his military service in World War One. Graves, a product of the British class system, forthrightly details his formative years amongst the upper echelon attending Copthorne and King's College - a schooling replete with all of the snobbery, cruelty, slights, scholasticism, romantic homoeroticism, obsession with sports and gentlemanly rules and King and Country that all served to produce generations of fit and ready young men to serve the growing needs of Empire.

With the same simple honesty, Graves segues into his enthusiastic enlistment in the army, one of hundreds of thousands of eager young recruits ready to show the Kaiser a thing or two about British indomitability. It is important to keep in mind, in this modern day of hyperinformation, how uniquely fresh and disturbing were Grave's descriptions of his subsequent spiral into despair and disillusionment under the twin bludgeons of the carnage and horror of trench warfare and the utter incompetence of the Upper Class general staff. Graves suffered wounds serious enough that, as his shattered body was being carted away, his own CO wrote a letter to his parents offering his condolences on the death of their brave son. For the majority of the remainder of the war Graves was a recuperating invalid, telling of his burgeoning (and sexually charged) friendship with fellow open-eyed poet Siegfried Sassoon, the propaganda-stoked war fever of the stay-at-home populace, and his conflicted struggle between duty and terror about getting back to the front lines. An encapsulation of his years after the war, chiefly amidst the quiet, hauntingly beautiful countryside of a victoriously shattered post-war England and Wales, includes brief details of his marriage to Nancy Nicholson, the first of the three wives who would be the principal cast-members in the tumultuous theatre of Graves' personal relationships.

My edition of Goodbye to All That contained the revisions - extensive in certain areas - that Graves made in 1958, when the cooling waters of time, and a pair of acrimonious divorces, combined to convince the author to expurgate his autobiography of certain strident and matrimonial passages that, written in the white heat of an angry, bitter young man, needed to be tempered by the wisdom of future maturity (and a third wife). I have always kept an eye out for the original edit of the book when I browse my city's second-hand bookstores, as I would much enjoy reading the blistering accusations unleashed by the fiery post-war Graves now that I've partaken of the edge-smoothing polish that supposedly covers up many of their traces in all the available editions of the book I've come across. Graves cool prose, at times appropriately caustic and contemptuous, is nigh-perfect in that icy elegance that stems from the school system he describes. The Graves of Goodbye to All That is an honest and brave young man, if not particularly likeable, and curiously distant even when immersed in the tortured landscapes of hell. ...more

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Nov 25, 2012 Don Incognito rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The strength of Robert Graves' autobiography is that it provides sharp and illuminating observations on: the culture of the British school system and students in the early twentieth century; the behavior and attitudes of British regular military officers (as opposed to both enlistees and reservists) near the frontline during World War I; and, especially, trench warfare. The book is an excellent resource for understanding what life in the trenches--during battle attacks and between attacks--was l The strength of Robert Graves' autobiography is that it provides sharp and illuminating observations on: the culture of the British school system and students in the early twentieth century; the behavior and attitudes of British regular military officers (as opposed to both enlistees and reservists) near the frontline during World War I; and, especially, trench warfare. The book is an excellent resource for understanding what life in the trenches--during battle attacks and between attacks--was like. Trench warfare is fascinating, if miserable.

The weakness: Graves's writing is very, very emotionally restrained. At no time does he let the reader have a glimpse of his soul. It's hard not to conclude that Graves was simply a cool, distant intellectual.

The reader can figure out early on that Graves had no special sympathy for either England or Germany in the war, and the most likely reason is obvious. Graves had one German parent and many German relatives, and spent substantial time in Germany in his youth. This, in addition to his joining the British Army for self-interested reasons, prevented strong nationalistic feelings in him toward either country.

Except for its extensive descriptions of trench warfare life, I consider this book ultimately a failure, due to two problems. One is Graves's emotional restraint. He eventually makes it clear that he has been psychologically damaged by the trench warfare, using the word "neurasthenia" frequently to describe his mental condition during leave and relating that he suffered from shell shock for years after the war. Therefore, the restraint must be excused, I guess; Graves did what he could do. Nevertheless, the reader can't see much of Graves's soul at any time.

The other problem is inexcusable. If you read reviews of this book or read other biographical information on Graves, you will know he left England circa 1929 and moved to Spain permanently, feeling very bitter toward England. We can figure out that the bitterness must have been due to the stupidity of the entire war, the stupidity and arrogance of the English military leaders, and the naivete and ignorance of patriotic English civilians; but apparently there was something else that made Graves angry and bitter. Unfortunately, Graves does not explain what that was, does not even give enough clues for us to guess. The only reason at all that we know his angry departure was due to anything other than World War I is the first paragraph of the prologue (written in 1957), which says:

I partly wrote, partly dictated, this book twenty-eight years ago during a complicated domestic crisis, and with very little time for revision. It was my bitter leave-taking of England where I had recently broke a good many conventions; quarreled with, or been disowned by, most of my friends; been grilled by the police on suspicion of attempted murder; and ceased to care what anyone thought of me.

That's honestly all he says about whatever drove him out of England, as though it couldn't be important or interesting. He says absolutely nothing about his later career as an important classicist writer, either. I suppose he wanted to relate only the history of his youth and his career as a soldier during World War I. This book should be called a "memoir," because it's much too incomplete to be an "autobiography." ...more

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Don Incognito Interesting. Thank you.

So Riding didn't die from the fall? Or was he addressing her memory?
Aug 01, 2014 02:42PM

Susan Lanigan Oh no, not she. She *intended* to, mind you. Sat on the sill, announced "Goodbye chaps", then jumped. But she survived and she and Graves went off to ...more
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May 25, 2011 Jeanette "Astute Crabbist" rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: audio , biography-memoir , four-star-nonfiction , nonfiction

I probably would have liked this better if I'd been able to read it in print. Alas, most libraries don't have it these days, so I was lucky enough to get the abridged audio edition from my library. It's only four disks, and the fourth disk is far and away the most interesting. The earlier disks are filled with the repetitive miseries of World War I from the soldier's perspective, and also his strange upbringing as an English schoolboy.

The fourth disk provides a lot more variety. He discusses th I probably would have liked this better if I'd been able to read it in print. Alas, most libraries don't have it these days, so I was lucky enough to get the abridged audio edition from my library. It's only four disks, and the fourth disk is far and away the most interesting. The earlier disks are filled with the repetitive miseries of World War I from the soldier's perspective, and also his strange upbringing as an English schoolboy.

The fourth disk provides a lot more variety. He discusses the war mania in England, the letter from "the little mother," the Spanish flu epidemic, living in dugouts in the coldest winter since 1894, regiments stealing horses from each other for their looks, and a lot of non-war experiences and topics. He was plagued by flashbacks of WWI all the way up until 1928, most of them regarding his first four months of wartime in France.

Graves discusses his and his friends' disillusionment with the war effort in 1917. Peace had been offered and rejected in 1915, and he felt the war's continuance "seemed merely a sacrifice of the idealistic younger generation to the stupidity and self-protective alarm of the elder."
The same can be said of our war nearly 100 years later. Ever thus it shall be...

There are a lot of interesting tidbits about his life and the world at that time, probably even more in the unabridged book. He met T.E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia")in 1920 and they became friends. After marrying, he and his wife moved to Cairo, where he taught English literature for a year. After his divorce in 1929, he swore never to make England his home again, which explains the title, Goodbye to All That . ...more

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Nov 26, 2007 Nat rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

What follows is my favorite passage from Goodbye to All That . It begins with Graves's delivery of absurdity in deadpan style:

"Many of the patients at Osborne were neurasthenic and should have been in a special neurasthenic hospital. A.A. Milne was there, as a subaltern in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, and in his least humorous vein. One Vernon Bartlett, of the Hampshire Regiment, decided with me that something new must be started. So we founded the 'Royal Albert Society', its pretended aim b What follows is my favorite passage from Goodbye to All That . It begins with Graves's delivery of absurdity in deadpan style:

"Many of the patients at Osborne were neurasthenic and should have been in a special neurasthenic hospital. A.A. Milne was there, as a subaltern in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, and in his least humorous vein. One Vernon Bartlett, of the Hampshire Regiment, decided with me that something new must be started. So we founded the 'Royal Albert Society', its pretended aim being to revive interest in the life and times of the Prince Consort. My regalia as president consisted of a Scottish dirk, Hessian boots, and and pair of side-whiskers. Official business might not proceed until the announcement had been duly made that 'The whiskers are on the table'. Membership was open only to officers who professed themselves students of the life and works of the Prince Consort; those who had been born in the province of Alberta in Canada; those who had resided for six months or longer by the banks of the Albert Nyanza; those who held the Albert Medal for saving life; or those who were linked with the Prince Consort's memory in any other signal way. This must have been the first of the now popular burlesques of Victorianism. The members were instructed to report at each meeting reminiscences collected from old palace-servants and Osborne cottagers, throwing light on the human side of the Consort's life. We had fifteen members and ate quantities of strawberries".

Then it gets even more absurd:

"On one occasion, a dozen officers came in to join the society, professing to have the necessary qualifications. One claimed to be the grandson of the man who had built the Albert Memorial; one had worked at the Albert Docks; and one actually did possess the Albert Medal for saving life; the others were all interested students. They submitted quietly at first to the ceremonies and business, but it was soon apparent that they had come to break up the society; they were, in fact, most of them drunk. They began giving indecent accounts of the Prince Consort's private life, alleging that they could substantiate them with photographic evidence. Bartlett and I got worried; it was not that sort of society. Therefore, as president, I rose and told in an improved version the story which had won the 1914 Aldershot for the filthiest story of the year. I linked it up with the Prince Consort by saying that he had heard it from the lips of John Brown, the famous Balmoral ghillie, in whose pawky humor Queen Victoria used to find such delight; and that, having prevented him from sleeping for three days and nights, it had been a contributory cause of his premature death. The interrupters threw up their hands, in shocked surrender, and walked out" (pp.253-254). ...more

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Aug 23, 2007 Eric rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

All the chickenhawks who think war is wonderful and glorious should read this book. Then go enlist.

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Feb 22, 2011 Sibyl rated it 5 of 5 stars

This is an extraordinary book. It's as fresh to read as broadsheet journalism. Robert Graves is confiding, honest, provocative - not at all like a stiff upper-lipped English gentleman, (Perhaps this is because he was part-Irish, part German?)
Most of my knowledge of the First World War comes from reading the poetry of Wilfred Owen, a couple of biographies of Owen, and Pat Barker's 'Regeneration' trilogy. Graves's account of life in the trenches adds greatly to that picture. I was able to understa ...more

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Nov 10, 2014 Jean Poulos rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: audio-2014 , autobiography , history , menoir , non-fiction , world-war-1

This book was written in 1929 as a memoir of his service in World War One. The book covers his early life, his time at Charterhouse School where he was mercilessly bullied, the war and the post war period up to writing the book in 1929.

Like many young men Graves enlisted within days of the outbreak of the Great War with no understanding of what war was like. He enlisted as an officer in the Royal Welch Fusiliers. He fought in France—the Somme, Souchez, Bethune, Loos, Cambria and Cuinchy—and was This book was written in 1929 as a memoir of his service in World War One. The book covers his early life, his time at Charterhouse School where he was mercilessly bullied, the war and the post war period up to writing the book in 1929.

Like many young men Graves enlisted within days of the outbreak of the Great War with no understanding of what war was like. He enlisted as an officer in the Royal Welch Fusiliers. He fought in France—the Somme, Souchez, Bethune, Loos, Cambria and Cuinchy—and was seriously wounded and discharged in 1918. In January 1926 Graves, Nancy and their four children set out for Egypt where Graves was to take up an appointment as professor of English in Cairo. In 1929 he divorced his wife and set up house in Deya, Majorca with the American Poet Laura Riding. Graves book “Goodbye To All That” was published the same year as Erick Maira Remarque’s “All Quiet On the Western Front.” Graves was a well known poet and he also wrote poems about WWI as did his friend and fellow soldier Siegfried Sassoon. Graves is best known for his book “I Claudius.”

What makes this such a good memoir about the war is that it is not bogged down with ideologies or politics. He presents what it was like to live day to day in the trenches (as an officer). His vivid account of life and death in the trenches is haunting. While there is obviously much fear, discomfort and horror, there is also lots of comedy and camaraderie. Graves wants to show what WWI was really like, no sentimentalizing it or giving it a meaning he didn’t feel. It was a horrific, life changing experience and that was all.

I had just finished reading “The Storm of Steel” by Ernst Junger. Junger’s memoir is similar to that of Graves in that they both are about reportage. Graves included information about his fellow soldiers, Junger did not, both books tell about the daily life of a soldier. I find it interesting to read about the same battle they both fought in but on opposite side such as the Somme and Cambria. Between the two books I have seen World War One from both viewpoints of the average German and English soldier. Both books reveal a unique, honest and incredibly powerful depiction of the realities of life as a soldier, and of the true effects of fighting on those who experienced it. I read this as an audio book downloaded from Audible. Martin Jarvis did a good job narrating the book. I recommend this book as a must read for the WWI 100th anniversary.
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Jan 09, 2014 Nigeyb rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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It is as a document of World War One that this book really shines. Robert Graves includes a wealth of little details that bring the day-to-day life of him, and his regiment, to life: the gallows humour, the values of the soldiers, the disillusionment with the war and the staff and yet the loyalty to their officers, the lice, the food, the other privations. It's all there in this excellent memoir. Robert Graves also captures the tragedy and waste of the conflict - friends and fellow soldiers dyin It is as a document of World War One that this book really shines. Robert Graves includes a wealth of little details that bring the day-to-day life of him, and his regiment, to life: the gallows humour, the values of the soldiers, the disillusionment with the war and the staff and yet the loyalty to their officers, the lice, the food, the other privations. It's all there in this excellent memoir. Robert Graves also captures the tragedy and waste of the conflict - friends and fellow soldiers dying or getting wounded all the time. Extraordinary luck means that Robert Graves beat the odds and managed to survive but not without injuries and many brushes with death.

Goodbye to All That was written in 1929, when Robert Graves was 33 years old. Although primarily known as a memoir about Robert Graves ' experience of World War One, in which he served in the Royal Welch Fusiliers, the book opens with his family background, childhood, and education, before - at the outbreak of World War One - he enlists. The book also details his life for the ten years after World War One.

Goodbye to All That is an amazing memoir. For such a short volume Robert Graves packs in so much information and detail, and the book really brings alive day-to-day trench life with all its attendant horrors, boredom, pettiness, depravation, cameraderie and humour. Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand what life was like in the trenches.
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May 17, 2014 Diane Barnes rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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This 3 star review is really more 3 1/2, because as a historical telling of his life before, during, and after WWI, it is valuable for it's portrayal of the changing of the guard in England during that time. However, for me, (and I know I may be in the minority here with other reviewers), it was not a book that I looked forward to spending time with. His voice was dry and distant, with no passion regarding the events related. There were very few details that made scenes come alive, instead it wa ...more

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Mar 12, 2008 Mike Schneider rated it 4 of 5 stars

What strikes me about this book -- after the descriptions of WW I trench warfare, which give me a sensual feel for this war as does nothing else I've read, including All Quiet on the Western Front . . .

What strikes me is Graves' tone toward his material -- it's an epic, amazing tale, I think. Greatly tragic. And yet his British stiff upper lip, in a way, never quivers. He delivers all of it -- the whole story of young men dying horribly, and for nothing much beyond empty nationalist pride & ...more

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Feb 26, 2015 Abby rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: memoir , mary-karr , british-lit

Smoothly written and often darkly humorous memoir about the complications of upper crust British boyhood and young adulthood. The memoir focuses on Graves’s time in the trenches during WWI, and it’s a stirring personal report on the devastation and stress of war (with some moments of wit and humor to lift the mood, such as his account of how he was declared officially dead while he was convalescing). Particularly interesting: his long friendship with Siegfried Sassoon, his (swiftly disintegratin ...more

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Apr 30, 2012 Jamie rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I wasn't really sure about this one beforehand - decided to read it purely because it was top of the pile of random books tht seems to have accumulated next to my bed. Turned out to be an inspired piece of untidiness.

I really cannot recommend this highly enough - moving, heartfelt, and you constantly get the impression that Graves is playing his own achievements and contributions down in order to talk up his friends. This modesty does leave you feeling curiously as though you've not been told th ...more

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Mar 26, 2011 Courtney Johnston rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Over the past week, I have thought and thought and though and thought about how to review this book. And I've realised that I just can't. I have dogeared 20+ pages, I have re=read chapters, I have drafted opening lines inside my head, but there is nothing I can add to this book.

However. As we start gearing up for a nationwide outpouring of sentimentality to mark the centennial of the beginning of World War One, I think we owe it to ourselves to read books like this - surely one of the most caust ...more

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Jan 10, 2015 Aaron rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I feel so fortunate to have come across this in a second bookstore, an original 1930 edition (so no epilogue; that came with the 1958 edition). What a gripping account of the the First World War (also of English boarding school culture, where same-sex romance was customary, but those sections recedes as you plough through the carnage and waste of the trenches). Graves adopts a kind of detachment throughout the book, perhaps the only way he can write about the horrific battles in which he partici I feel so fortunate to have come across this in a second bookstore, an original 1930 edition (so no epilogue; that came with the 1958 edition). What a gripping account of the the First World War (also of English boarding school culture, where same-sex romance was customary, but those sections recedes as you plough through the carnage and waste of the trenches). Graves adopts a kind of detachment throughout the book, perhaps the only way he can write about the horrific battles in which he participated. The detachment makes everything clear-eyed and trenchant because not overwrought. He is particularly good at describing the folly and mayhem of the Somme, where he was thought killed for a while (his family received a telegram to say as much), but also good at evoking the small mercies that punctuated trench life. He develops an important friendship with Siegfried Sassoon, who appears to strike two contrary attitudes: an anti-war agitator when on leave in England; a fiendishly fierce and relentless warrior on the battlefield. Throughout Graves memoir I was struck by the courageousness of ordinary soldiers--their brisk matter-of-factness towards mortality--versus the arrogance and absurdity of so many of their commanders. All this has been said elsewhere, but because Goodbye to all This was published only 12 years after the war it has an unparalleled sense of immediacy. There are some good post-war anecdotes, too, including Graves first meeting with T.E.Lawrence ("the restlessness of his eyes was the first thing about him that I noticed.") and his marriage to Nancy Nicholson, a passionate feminist who insists on keeping her own name, and distributing their surnames equally among their four children. They cycle from Oxford to Deveon, sleeping outdoors during the day, and meet Thomas Hardy, who entertains with a diatribe against a critic who accused him of making up words: "Hardy then laughed a little and said that once or twice recently he had looked up a word in the dictionary for fear of being again accused of coining, and had found it there right enough--only to read on and find that the sole authority quoted was himself in a half-forgotten novel!"
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Nov 05, 2014 Mario Hinksman rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

A powerful autobiography that is also readily accessible. At its extremities it covers a life that starts with Queen Victoria on the throne at a time when no plane has ever flown and concludes with the author living in a time when Prince Charles is in the news as Queen Victoria's Great Great Great Grandson and the author is living on Majorca where 90 planes a day are landing at that point. Graves actually lived until 1985 reaching 90.

However the focus of the book is Graves' experiences in the Fi A powerful autobiography that is also readily accessible. At its extremities it covers a life that starts with Queen Victoria on the throne at a time when no plane has ever flown and concludes with the author living in a time when Prince Charles is in the news as Queen Victoria's Great Great Great Grandson and the author is living on Majorca where 90 planes a day are landing at that point. Graves actually lived until 1985 reaching 90.

However the focus of the book is Graves' experiences in the First World War. Coming from a background that is part English, part German and part Irish Graves observes the mood of the time dispassionately enough to understand it. He himself experiences anti-German prejudice before the war. He describes a mainly miserable time at school eventually finding solace in one sport he can excel at- boxing. The start of the First World War arrives soon after he leaves school and like the great majority he volunteers of his own free will. Graves fights bravely and is wounded several times, once badly enough to have news of his death delivered to his mother. He survives but eventually succumbs to shell shock (neurasthenia).

His description of the war both reflects the brutality of trench warfare but also its inefficiency (boiling water by firing a machine gun until it is hot enough to act as a kettle and burning biscuits to keep warm) and the shambles that it sometimes was (gas attacks that stubbornly went ahead despite the wind and ended up gassing their own men). There are references to the leadership of the day, the nature of Lloyd George and the failure to accept a peace offer that could have returned things to where they were at the start of the war (which broadly happened anyway after a further two years of carnage).

This is a volunteer soldier's account of the reality of war and an unspoken plea to avoid it in future. There is little glory in this book but there is much reflection on a disaster and failure of leadership that cut short many young lives and blighted many more. There is a sense of the injustice of a largely pointless war, led by old men who ordered the young to their deaths.

Graves' life after the war is also an interesting read especially relating to the many people he meets including TE Lawrence and Thomas Hardy. I would recommend this book to anyone with even a remote interest in WWI- it will certainly cause you to think about the causes and conduct of that war. It might also give cause to rethink some of the cliches we know such as the 'glorious dead'. Graves has the authority to challenge as he was there and he did fight in what he describes as a squalid, wasteful and ultimately pointless conflict that achieved nothing except possibly paving the way for the second war and directly and indirectly causing millions of deaths in combat, through disease and through revolution and famine. ...more

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Chiefly a memoir of Robert Graves' service as an infantry officer on the western front during WWI. What I still remember after reading this years ago is his account of all the different types of gas masks that he is issued with, one after another slightly less deficient in some way than the previous model.

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Sep 10, 2014 Jessica rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Second on my WWI centenary binge-reading list was this classic account of a British officer's life pre, during, and post-war. This book was really detailed and gripping, and by putting the war in the context of the rest of Graves's life, it provides an interesting account of how English society changed as a result of the war and how officers were born and bred through the 'public' (that's 'private' for Americans) school system.

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Oct 09, 2011 Tim rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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I have read a fair bit about the First World War and most of these books always seem to quote Graves somewhere along the line. To read it first hand was pure pleasure and it truly is one of the best accounts of trench warfare I have ever read.

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Sep 21, 2014 JoséMaría BlancoWhite rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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As a man Robert Graves is best described by his own words at the end of this autobiography:

A conditioning in the Protestant morality of the English governing classes, though qualified by mixed blood, a rebellious nature, and an overriding poetic obsession is not easily outgrown.

Other than from these his own words it is very hard to judge the person. Why? In this book he so candidly –or perhaps arrogantly?- talks about himself, about things so private and personal, that the reader is made to fee As a man Robert Graves is best described by his own words at the end of this autobiography:

A conditioning in the Protestant morality of the English governing classes, though qualified by mixed blood, a rebellious nature, and an overriding poetic obsession is not easily outgrown.

Other than from these his own words it is very hard to judge the person. Why? In this book he so candidly –or perhaps arrogantly?- talks about himself, about things so private and personal, that the reader is made to feel at times a voyeur. So, either the man thinks himself to stand so above the level of the common and ordinary folks, or really is acting candidly. I am not sure which option to pick as the correct one. In case of doubt, I resort to the quote above.

Robert Graves was an excellent British writer. Never mind his being another typical and regretable case of intellectual self-righteousness, of atheist aristocrats gone socialist. He carried the chip of Protestant morality over his shoulder all through his life, as the quote from the epilogue confirms, written many years later after the book. And this resentment wears heavily on his mood and opinions throughout the book. Even if mild mannered, calm, and not prone to adventure, vices or excesses, the anger flows constantly between lines. He never could maintain a steady job; until he could live on the income from his book writing he always lived on allowances, either from the government or from his parents and in-laws; he admitted to being unfit to take jobs which carried the burden of taking any orders; but talent he had, and success came, eventually, to allow him the life we had wanted: to be able to live on his books.

The author starts by telling about his life in the English public schools. This section is filled with those private anecdotes that we mentioned above and that he comments on so matter-of-factly. The second section is the largest and occupies his participation in the Great War, his ins and outs due to wounds and his relationships with people of diverse opinions regarding the war, that is, about pacifists and non-pacifists, obviously Graves being in the first group but –interestingly enough- in a not too outspoken way. The third part sees him marrying and having kids, living in England, trying to make a living, meeting other literary figures and celebrities, Lawrence (of Arabia) and Thomas Hardy being two of the most interesting cases. Finally, he moves with his family to teach in Egypt. But, as it was a job that involved taking orders, he would quit soon enough and return to England. There the book ends. The epilogue gives us a brief summary of his later life.

All in all, as I said before, it is not easy to pass judgment on the man. He is too honest, even if wrong. Or maybe, the other possibility, he was so convinced of his righteousness to dismiss any possible indictment on his person. His participation in the war, first as soldier and then as an officer, is one of those intriguing facts of his life that make it hard for us to figure him out: his active participation and his come-backs after being wounded many times tell openly about his valour and commitment to his country, yet his own opinion stood against any involvment in this war. What we do know, and what we do have here, is a very entertaining and interesting book that sheds light on British high society, their commitment and involvement in the First World War, about the British Empire in the beginning of the 20th century, and about some of the most interesting literary figures of the English language of those times.
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Jul 23, 2014 Robert rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Had wanted to read this for a long time, esp. after re-reading Paul Fussel's "Great War and Modern Memory" - an essential book for anyone interested in WW1 in the context of culture.

Graves comes off as relatively insufferable, or at best, not self-aware in any way. And for a memoirist, he follows the questionable practice of repeatedly using the "we used to's" and "we often's" for events that it's difficult to believe happened more than once or twice... which is all suspicion on my part, but whe ...more

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About Robert Graves

Robert Ranke Graves, born in Wimbledon, received his early education at King's College School and Copthorne Prep School, Wimbledon & Charterhouse School and won a scholarship to St John's College, Oxford. While at Charterhouse in 1912, he fell in love with G. H. Johnstone, a boy of fourteen ("Dick" in Goodbye to All That ) When challenged by the headmaster he defended himself by citing Plato, G Robert Ranke Graves, born in Wimbledon, received his early education at King's College School and Copthorne Prep School, Wimbledon & Charterhouse School and won a scholarship to St John's College, Oxford. While at Charterhouse in 1912, he fell in love with G. H. Johnstone, a boy of fourteen ("Dick" in Goodbye to All That ) When challenged by the headmaster he defended himself by citing Plato, Greek poets, Michelangelo & Shakespeare, "who had felt as I did".
At the outbreak of WWI, Graves enlisted almost immediately, taking a commission in the Royal Welch Fusiliers. He published his first volume of poems, Over the Brazier , in 1916. He developed an early reputation as a war poet and was one of the first to write realistic poems about his experience of front line conflict. In later years he omitted war poems from his collections, on the grounds that they were too obviously "part of the war poetry boom". At the Battle of the Somme he was so badly wounded by a shell-fragment through the lung that he was expected to die, and indeed was officially reported as 'died of wounds'. He gradually recovered. Apart from a brief spell back in France, he spent the rest of the war in England.
One of Graves's closest friends at this time was the poet Siegfried Sassoon, who was also an officer in the RWF. In 1917 Sassoon tried to rebel against the war by making a public anti-war statement. Graves, who feared Sassoon could face a court martial, intervened with the military authorities and persuaded them that he was suffering from shell shock, and to treat him accordingly. Graves also suffered from shell shock, or neurasthenia as it is sometimes called, although he was never hospitalised for it.
Biographers document the story well. It is fictionalised in Pat Barker's novel Regeneration . The intensity of their early relationship is nowhere demonstrated more clearly than in Graves's collection Fairies & Fusiliers (1917), which contains a plethora of poems celebrating their friendship. Through Sassoon, he also became friends with Wilfred Owen, whose talent he recognised. Owen attended Graves's wedding to Nancy Nicholson in 1918, presenting him with, as Graves recalled, "a set of 12 Apostle spoons".
Following his marriage and the end of the war, Graves belatedly took up his place at St John's College, Oxford. He later attempted to make a living by running a small shop, but the business failed. In 1926 he took up a post at Cairo University, accompanied by his wife, their children and the poet Laura Riding. He returned to London briefly, where he split with his wife under highly emotional circumstances before leaving to live with Riding in Deià, Majorca. There they continued to publish letterpress books under the rubric of the Seizin Press, founded and edited the literary journal Epilogue , and wrote two successful academic books together: A Survey of Modernist Poetry (1927) and A Pamphlet Against Anthologies (1928).
In 1927, he published Lawrence and the Arabs , a commercially successful biography of T.E. Lawrence. Good-bye to All That (1929, revised and republished in 1957) proved a success but cost him many of his friends, notably Sassoon. In 1934 he published his most commercially successful work, I, Claudius . Using classical sources he constructed a complexly compelling tale of the life of the Roman emperor Claudius, a tale extended in Claudius the God (1935). Another historical novel by Graves, Count Belisarius (1938), recounts the career of the Byzantine general Belisarius.
During the early 1970s Graves began to suffer from increasingly severe memory loss, and by his eightieth birthday in 1975 he had come to the end of his working life. By 1975 he had published more than 140 works. He survived for ten more years in an increasingly dependent condition until he died from heart failure. ...more

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“Cuinchy bred rats. They came up from the canal, fed on the plentiful corpses, and multiplied exceedingly. While I stayed here with the Welsh, a new officer joined the company... When he turned in that night, he heard a scuffling, shone his torch on the bed, and found two rats on his blanket tussling for the possession of a severed hand.” — 4 likes

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