Edmund Blunden

UK · WWI — British officer memoir

About

Poet who served two years on the Western Front, longer than almost any other writer of the war, and recorded it in prose of pastoral restraint and quiet horror.

Books in Database (1)

Undertones of War 1928 · 314 pages

A poet's quietly devastating memoir of two years in the line at the Somme and Ypres.

Memoir

Events Covered

1916 Battle of the Somme 1917 Passchendaele (Third Ypres)