Contemporary Review, November 1st, 1996
Edmund Blunden's personal account of his war service in 'Undertones of War' was hailed by H.M. Tomlinson as the greatest and most lasting tribute to the unknown soldier. Blunden wrote direct from memory about the trenches and the soldiers who fought in them. The book was written in 1928, a decade after the Armistice, when he was already Professor of English Literature in Tokyo University. Blunden is also well known as a poet and biographer. Edmund Blunden achieved considerable fame as a poet and biographer but was haunted for the rest of his life by his experiences as a young infantry officer...
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