[WWI] What's your favorite OT memoir?

[David Vosburgh]

I didn't realize that Robert Graves was involved in the Great War; I've read 
a couple of his books on Greek mythology and *The White Goddess". But I 
guess it shouldn't come as much of a surprise since so many British authors 
were also soldiers/sailors/airmen at some point or another - my very 
favorite is (now Sir) Paddy Fermor, who was a "licensed ruffian" on Crete 
during WWII and once kidnapped a German general, then there was Lord 
Dunsany, and Tolkein, and Ian Fleming, and Evelyn Waugh, and...

But for favorite OT books I'd have to go with Cecil Lewis. It's not only OT, 
it's literature that can stand with anything to come out of the UK.

IMHO,

DV

>From: "ernest thomas" <reason108 at hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: World War I Modeling Mailing List <wwi at wwi-models.org>
>To: wwi at wwi-models.org
>Subject: Re: [WWI] What's your favorite OT memoir?
>Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 00:38:24 -0500
>
>Matt,
>Everyone's pretty much covered the WWI 'Flying' books. BUt a couple of must 
>read authors are Robert Graves and Dalt Trumbo.
>Start with "Goodbye To All Of That" (Robert Graves) and "Johnny Got His 
>Gun" (Dalt Trumbo).
>The Graves book is an excellent trench memoir/biography but he's written a 
>lot of material relating to the Great War, and the Trumbo is a deeply 
>disturbing bit of anti-war fiction, which, imo, is a must read for those of 
>us who like to 'play with war'. Sort of reminds you what war is really all 
>about.
>E.
>
>

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