Author: Pat Barker

Quotes

Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.

Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.

- Pat Barker

I didn't belong to the sort of family where the children's classics were laid on. I went to the public library and read everything I could get my hands on.

I didn't belong to the sort of family where the children's classics were laid on. I went to the public library and read everything I could get my hands on.

- Pat Barker

'Undertones of War' by Edmund Blunden seems to get less attention than the memoirs of Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, but it is a great book.

'Undertones of War' by Edmund Blunden seems to get less attention than the memoirs of Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, but it is a great book.

- Pat Barker

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