Critical Responses
Siegfried Sassoon and his friend Edmund Blunden (whose First World War service had been in a different regiment) both took umbrage at the contents of the book. Sassoon's complaints mostly related to Graves's depiction of him and his family, whereas Blunden had read the memoirs of J. C. Dunn and found them at odds with Graves in some places. The two men set about defacing Blunden's copy of Good-Bye to All That with marginal notes contradicting some of Graves's statements. The copy survives and is now held by the New York Public Library.
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