Product details
ISBN
9780141197685
Published
2012-01-26
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd; Penguin Classics
Weight
145 gr
Height
198 mm
Width
129 mm
Thickness
1 mm
Age
01, G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
288
Author
Biographical note
Robert Graves was born in 1895 in Wimbledon. He went from school to the First World War, where he became a captain in the Royal Welch Fusiliers and was seriously wounded at the Battle of the Somme. He wrote his autobiography, Goodbye to All That, in 1929, and it was soon established as a modern classic. He died on 7 December 1985 in Majorca, his home since 1929.Among the most generous, self-willed, unseemly and brilliant writers of our century
The New York Times
Robert Graves first came across the name of Roger Lamb in 1914, when Graves was an English officer instructing his platoon in regimental history. Lamb was a British soldier who had served his king during the American War of Independence, and whose claim to a footnote in history is that he managed to escape twice from American prison camps. When Graves went to America in the 1930s, he remembered Sergeant Lamb, investigated his story and created this fictionalized memoir telling Lamb's story from his Irish childhood to war and revolution, weaving a mesmerizing tale of courage and adventure.
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Product details
ISBN
9780141197685
Published
2012-01-26
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd; Penguin Classics
Weight
145 gr
Height
198 mm
Width
129 mm
Thickness
1 mm
Age
01, G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
288
Author