Under Fire

Author

Robert Graves

An autobiographical work that describes firsthand the great tectonic shifts in English society following the First World War, Robert Graves's Goodbye to All That is a matchless evocation of the Great War's haunting legacy, published in Penguin Modern Classics.

In 1929 Robert Graves went...

Author	Mark Thompson
ISBN	0571223338

On the hardcover version of Mark Thompson’s The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front, there’s a remarkable picture of tiny soldiers jumping out of their snow packed trenches. In front of them is the steep side of a mountain. Talk about the Mountains of Madness! But that’s pretty much the...

Author	Max Arthur
ISBN	0091888875

This unique landmark oral history uses first-hand accounts from ordinary men and women who were there. Gripping, poignant, surprising and even humorous, the personal experiences of these soldiers, civilians, marines and medics from both sides tell us what it was really like to live through what...

Author	Jean Racine
ISBN	2070409023

Fin d’une guerre où l’on crie malheur aux vaincus. Prise d’otages. Chantage sur un enfant. Complot. Manipulation. Passions trahies et noyées dans le sang. Fanatisme. Folie. Bain de sang final. Des horreurs d’aujourd’hui ? Non. C’est le résumé de la tragédie Andromaque, sur les...

Author	François Rabelais
ISBN	2070363872

François Rabelais holds a unique place in the history of world literature, and no more so than for his extraordinary satirical entertainment Gargantua and Pantagruel. Here the first of these volumes is presented in a new and lively translation. Pantagruel recounts the life a popular giant. From...

Author	Carl von Clausewitz
ISBN	0691018545

Carl von Clausewitz's On War has been called, "not simply the greatest, but the only truly great book on war." It is an extraordinary attempt to construct an all-embracing theory of how war works. Its coherence and ambition are unmatched by other military literature. On War is full of sharp observation,...

Author	Edmund Blunden
ISBN	0141184361

In what is one of the finest autobiographies to come out of the First World War, the distinguished poet Edmund Blunden records his experiences as an infantry subaltern in France and Flanders. Blunden took part in the disastrous battles of the Somme, Ypres and Passchendaele, describing the latter as...