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Good-Bye to All That, the Glossary

Good-Bye to All That is an autobiography by Robert Graves which first appeared in 1929, when the author was 34 years old.^[1]

46 relations: Alfred Perceval Graves, Atheism, Atrocity propaganda, Australians, Battle of Loos, Battle of the Somme, Climbing, Company sergeant major, Crib Goch, Cuinchy, Edmund Blunden, Expanding bullet, Feminism, Garnedd Ugain, George Mallory, J. C. Dunn, Jonathan Cape, Laura Riding, Lightning, Mills bomb, Mutilation, Neurasthenia, New York Public Library, Pacifism, Patriotism, Prisoner of war, Prisoner-of-war camp, Rape of Belgium, Robert Graves, Robert McCrum, Roger Ebert, Royal Welch Fusiliers, Scottish Canadians, Seitengewehr 98, Siegfried Sassoon, Socialism, Summary execution, The Crucified Soldier, The Guardian, The Reader Over Your Shoulder, Torture, Trench warfare, Wartime sexual violence, Western Front (World War I), World War I, Y Lliwedd.
1929 non-fiction books
Books by Robert Graves
History books about World War I
Personal accounts of World War I
Royal Welch Fusiliers

Alfred Perceval Graves

Alfred Perceval Graves (22 July 184627 December 1931), was an Anglo-Irish poet, songwriter and folklorist.

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Atheism

Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities.

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Atrocity propaganda

Atrocity propaganda is the spreading of information about the crimes committed by an enemy, which can be factual, but often includes or features deliberate fabrications or exaggerations.

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Australians

Australians, colloquially known as Aussies or Antipodeans, are the citizens, nationals and individuals associated with the country of Australia.

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Battle of Loos

The Battle of Loos took place from 1915 in France on the Western Front, during the First World War.

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The Battle of the Somme (Bataille de la Somme; Schlacht an der Somme), also known as the Somme offensive, was a major battle of the First World War fought by the armies of the British Empire and the French Third Republic against the German Empire.

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Climbing

Climbing is the activity of using one's hands, feet, or other parts of the body to ascend a steep topographical object that can range from the world's tallest mountains (e.g. the eight thousanders) to small boulders.

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Company sergeant major

The company sergeant major (CSM) is the senior non-commissioned soldier of a company in the armies of many Commonwealth countries, responsible for administration, standards and discipline.

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Crib Goch

Crib Goch is described as a "knife-edged" arête in the Snowdonia National Park in Gwynedd, Wales.

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Cuinchy

Cuinchy is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France.

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Edmund Blunden

Edmund Charles Blunden (1 November 1896 – 20 January 1974) was an English poet, author, and critic.

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Expanding bullet

Expanding bullets, also known colloquially as dumdum bullets, are projectiles designed to expand on impact.

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Feminism

Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social equality of the sexes.

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Garnedd Ugain

Garnedd Ugain, often referred to as Crib-y-Ddysgl, is a pyramidal mountain in Wales that forms part of the Snowdon Massif.

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George Mallory

George Herbert Leigh-Mallory (18 June 1886 – 8 or 9 June 1924) was an English mountaineer who participated in the first three British Mount Everest expeditions from the early to mid-1920s.

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J. C. Dunn

James Churchill Dunn (24 February 1871 – 30 March 1955) was a British medical officer during World War I, and author.

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Jonathan Cape

Jonathan Cape is a London publishing firm founded in 1921 by Herbert Jonathan Cape (1879–1960), who was head of the firm until his death.

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Laura Riding

Laura Riding Jackson (born Laura Reichenthal; January 16, 1901 – September 2, 1991), best known as Laura Riding, was an American poet, critic, novelist, essayist and short story writer.

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Lightning

Lightning is a natural phenomenon formed by electrostatic discharges through the atmosphere between two electrically charged regions, either both in the atmosphere or one in the atmosphere and one on the ground, temporarily neutralizing these in a near-instantaneous release of an average of between 200 megajoules and 7 gigajoules of energy, depending on the type.

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Mills bomb

"Mills bomb" is the popular name for a series of British hand grenades which were designed by William Mills.

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Mutilation

Mutilation or maiming (from the Latin: mutilus) is severe damage to the body that has a subsequent utterly ruinous effect on an individual's quality of life.

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Neurasthenia

Neurasthenia (from the Ancient Greek νεῦρον neuron "nerve" and ἀσθενής asthenés "weak") is a term that was first used as early as 1829 for a mechanical weakness of the nerves.

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New York Public Library

The New York Public Library (NYPL) is a public library system in New York City.

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Pacifism

Pacifism is the opposition or resistance to war, militarism (including conscription and mandatory military service) or violence.

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Patriotism

Patriotism is the feeling of love, devotion, and a sense of attachment to a country or state.

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Prisoner of war

A prisoner of war (POW) is a person who is held captive by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict.

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Prisoner-of-war camp

A prisoner-of-war camp (often abbreviated as POW camp) is a site for the containment of enemy fighters captured as prisoners of war by a belligerent power in time of war.

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Rape of Belgium

The Rape of Belgium was a series of systematic war crimes, especially mass murder and deportation, by German troops against Belgian civilians during the invasion and occupation of Belgium during World War I.

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Robert Graves

Captain Robert von Ranke Graves (24 July 1895 – 7 December 1985) was an English poet, soldier, historical novelist and critic.

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Robert McCrum

John Robert McCrum (born 7 July 1953) is an English writer and editor who held senior editorial positions at Faber & Faber over seventeen years, followed by a long association with The Observer.

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Roger Ebert

Roger Joseph Ebert (June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, film historian, journalist, essayist, screenwriter, and author.

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Royal Welch Fusiliers

The Royal Welch Fusiliers (Ffiwsilwyr Brenhinol Cymreig) was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, and part of the Prince of Wales's Division, that was founded in 1689; shortly after the Glorious Revolution.

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Scottish Canadians

Scottish Canadians (Canèidianaich Albannach) are people of Scottish descent or heritage living in Canada.

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Seitengewehr 98

The Seitengewehr 98 (literally meaning 'sidearm'), also known as the "Butcher's Blade", is a bayonet used with the Gewehr 98 rifle by Germany.

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Siegfried Sassoon

Siegfried Loraine Sassoon (8 September 1886 – 1 September 1967) was an English war poet, writer, and soldier.

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Socialism is an economic and political philosophy encompassing diverse economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of production, as opposed to private ownership.

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Summary execution

In civil and military jurisprudence, summary execution is the putting to death of a person accused of a crime without the benefit of a free and fair trial.

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The Crucified Soldier

The Crucified Soldier was the widespread story of an Allied soldier serving in the Canadian Corps who may have been crucified with bayonets on a barn door or a tree, while fighting on the Western Front during World War I. Three witnesses said they saw an unidentified crucified Canadian soldier near the battlefield of Ypres, Belgium, on or around 24 April 1915, but eyewitness accounts were somewhat contradictory, no crucified body was recovered and the identity of the alleged crucified soldier was not discovered at the time.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Reader Over Your Shoulder

The Reader Over Your Shoulder: A Handbook for Writers of English Prose (1943) is a style guide by the poet and novelist Robert Graves and the historian and journalist Alan Hodge. Good-Bye to All That and the Reader Over Your Shoulder are Books by Robert Graves.

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Torture

Torture is the deliberate infliction of severe pain or suffering on a person for reasons including punishment, extracting a confession, interrogation for information, intimidating third parties, or entertainment.

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Trench warfare

Trench warfare is a type of land warfare using occupied lines largely comprising military trenches, in which combatants are well-protected from the enemy's small arms fire and are substantially sheltered from artillery.

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Wartime sexual violence

Wartime sexual violence is rape or other forms of sexual violence committed by combatants during an armed conflict, war, or military occupation often as spoils of war, but sometimes, particularly in ethnic conflict, the phenomenon has broader sociological motives.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good-Bye_to_All_That

Also known as Good Bye to All That, Goodbye to All That.

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See also

1929 non-fiction books

Books by Robert Graves

History books about World War I

Personal accounts of World War I

Royal Welch Fusiliers

References