World War II Stories

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This paper summarizes, compares and contrasts Ernst Junger's and Robert Graves autobiographical accounts of their WWII experiences. The paper explains how both authors describe their experiences as soldiers in the war and how both accounts have an entirely different focus.

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"Good-Bye to All That is more than a simple recounting of Graves' experiences in the military. The memoir traces Graves' life prior to his entry into the military, and includes a review of his childhood. The author's experiences as a schoolboy at the public school, Charterhouse, were desperately unhappy, and set the tone for much of the dissonance and unhappiness in the rest of the book. Good-Bye to All That also delves into Graves' largely unhappy marriage to Nancy Nicholson, and traces many of his meetings with other authors and poets, such as Thomas Hardy and Siegfried Sassoon."

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