Robert Graves in the Great War (2018)

I didn’t especially enjoy this essay, but Goodbye To All That is a great (and pretty easy) read, which I’d highly recommend

I fondly remember listening to Robert Graves speak at Hunter College decades ago, and getting a couple of books autographed. “Welcome, all my gods and goddesses…”

I think Fussell is on the money. Take sense impressions from GTAT but not much else. Fussell wrote remarkably honestly about the paralysing fear war brings. I think both Graves and Sassoon skate around a bit on it.

Richard Holmes writes well about the trench warfare in "tommy", using sources like surgical & medical notes.

Pat Barkers "regeneration" trilogy from 1991 is about (amongst others) Sassoon, Graves, Owen, and the psychologist who treated Sassoon in Edinburgh. WHR Rivers was an interesting man in his own right. It's fiction but beautifully researched and written. I would not personally call Craiglockhart "outside" Edinburgh, it was a developed suburb of the town even in those days I think. Maybe the conurbation was less dense then.

Thank you internet (in the form of @apollinaire) for casting before me a fascinating site that I'd never have found on my own.