Robert Graves

"In this soldier's story, first published in 1929, poet Robert Graves traces the monumental loss of innocence that occurred as a result of World War I. Written after the war and as Graves was leaving England - he thought, forever - Good-bye to All That bids farewell not only to his birthplace. By the year of his departure, a way of life had ended, and England and the modern world would never be the same. Tracing Graves's upbringing through his entry...

"Here are the mythologies of mankind from pre-Biblical Egypt and pre-Homeric Greece, to Africa, the Orient, the Pacific, and the Americas - the first complete encyclopedia of world mythology, containing all the myths of classical antiquity and many strange and unfamiliar mythologies from the world over. This rich and fascinating volume belongs in every home and school library"--Back cover.

"A historical novel of the early years of the American Revolution based on the adventures of Sergeant Robert Lamb, a Dublin man, in the service of His Majesty's Army. It begins with Lamb's early days in Dublin and ends with his arrival in Boston as a member of the regiment taken prisoner after Burgoyne's surrender at Saratoga. The first in a two-book series, Sergeant Lamb's America is based on historical research, describing events and figures from...

Depicts the turbulent life of a Roman emperor, reconstructing the decadence of the Roman world.

"Sergeant Roger Lamb is in a prison camp near Boston with 3,000 other soldiers in General Johnny Burgoyne's army who surrendered at the Battle of Saratoga. Lamb is a non-commissioned officer in the British Army who served in America during the American War of Independence. But the American Congress refuses to ratify a repatriation agreement and Lamb plans an escape. He manages to make his way through General Washington's lines and rejoins Cornwallis...