Dimensions
138 x 216 x 14mm
Joyce Cary, the renowned novelist and author, was 23 years old at the start of the Balkan War of 1912-1913. A one-time art student in Edinburgh and Paris and newly down from Trinity College, Oxford he went through the war as a stretcher-bearer in the Red Cross.
Shortly after his return he wrote 'Memoir Of The Bobotes' without thought of publication. It is an extraordinarily vivid account of a forgotten war fought by peasants under primitive conditions - yet particularly fascinating today to readers with memories of later Balkan wars.
This is both a moving and illuminating account of the war, yet it also offers a self-portrait of a young upper-class Englishman, idealistic, sensitive, romantic, living in the belief that there would be no more wars.
