![]() ![]() That might be because I have read so many other memoirs, some stronger, and also seen some war myself in Somalia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq and, Afghanistan. The first and second times I read it, it seemed kind of shocking. ![]() I have to say I was less impressed this time. I also wanted to see what had captured me so much in the previous readings. ![]() I realized recently I hadn’t looked at it in about 20 years, so picked it up to see how it felt now. I read Graves’ memoir again in my 20s, at Yale, and then in my 30s, in Washington, D.C. I can’t think of any other book that I have read four times, except perhaps for some of Shakespeare’s tragedies. (I have no idea how I happened to come across it there in Afghanistan, or why picked it up.) I think it was the first book of military history that ever really grabbed me, for which I remain grateful. I read it first as a teenager in Kabul in 1970. I just finished reading Robert Graves’ autobiography of World War I service for the fourth time. ![]()
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