Undertones of War
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 Title page for Undertones of War (1928) | |
| Author | Edmund Blunden |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Memoir |
| Publisher | R. Cobden-Sanderson |
Publication date | 1928 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
Undertones of War is a 1928 memoir of the First World War, written by English poet Edmund Blunden. As with two other famous war memoirs—Siegfried Sassoon's Sherston trilogy, and Robert Graves' Good-Bye to All That—Undertones represents Blunden's first prose publication,[1] and was one of the earliest contributors to the flurry of Great War books to come out of England in the late 1920s and early 1930s.[2]
Paul Fussell has called Undertones of War an "extended elegy in prose,"[3] and critics have commented on its lack of central narrative. Like Henri Barbusse's Under Fire and Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, the text presents a series of war-related episodes rather than a distinct, teleological narrative.
