Diary of a Dead Officer

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 30, 2023

In Category - Poetry, Religion, War & Military, Biography & Autobiography, Atheism & Agnosticism

Authors: Arthur Graeme West In Year : 1919

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Diary of a Dead Officer

0 - Introduction
1 - Part I: Diary
2 - Part II: Diary
3 - Part III: Diary
4 - Part IV: Diary
5 - Part V: Poems

Published posthumously in 1919, this collection of diary entries presents a scathing picture of army life and is said to be one of the most vivid accounts of daily life in the trenches. It chronicles West's increasing disillusion with war and his move toward pacifist and atheist beliefs. The final part consists of his powerful war poems, including God, How I Hate You, You Young Cheerful Men, and Night Patrol. West was killed by a sniper in 1917. In view of some of his poems, one wonders if death was not unwelcome. (Introduction adapted from Wikipedia by Ruth Golding)