Goodbye to All That, an autobiography by Robert Graves, first appeared in print in 1929. It expressed Graves' desire to say "Good-Bye to All That", "All That" being an England dominated by middle-classmorality. Graves first wrote the work in his thirties, when he had a long and eventful life ahead of him; the book deals mainly with his childhood, youth and military service.
Graves heavily revised Goodbye to All That and re-published it in 1957 with many significant events and figures either excised or added.
Well, goodbye to all that, goodbye to the entire mind-set behind it: the inability to distinguish America’s sporadic blundering depradations (dissent from which was sometimes successful) from "Germany’s past," Hitlerism.
Goodbye to a culture of blindness that tolerates, as part of "peace marches," women wearing suicide-bomber belts as bikinis.
Goodbye to people who have demonstrated that what terror means to them is the terror of ever having to admit they were wrong, the terror of allowing the hideous facts of history to impinge upon their insulated ideology.
Goodbye to All That, an autobiography by Robert Graves, first appeared in print in 1929.
A large part of the book is taken up by his experiences of the First World War, where he gives a detailed description of trench warfare, including the tragic incompetences of the Battle of Loos.
Graves heavily revised Goodbye to All That and re-published it in 1957 with many significant events and figures either excised or added.
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