Journal Entry 1 by Cassiopaeia from Cardiff, Wales United Kingdom on Saturday, September 10, 2011

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Robert Graves' superb autobiography tells the story of his life at public school and as a young officer during the First World War. 

Journal Entry 2 by Cassiopaeia at Cardiff, Wales United Kingdom on Tuesday, April 10, 2012

I found this quite strange in a way, it was detached yet personal. The writing is very objective and often lacking emotion, but the very circumstances created their own emotion in the reader. Grave's detachment permitted a very clear picture of the atrocities to emerge and possibily this detachment helped him to survive. The personal insight into Sasson was interesting background to his own writing of the period. I liked how the war was bookended by his life at school and his later marriage and teaching in Cairo. Although an excellent book, my re-read by choice on WWI would be All's Quite on the Western Front.