68382: Escape

Page 273 from a first edition of 'Undertones of War' (1928) showing the poem 'Escape'. The prose section of the volume was written, apart from the help of a few maps, entirely from memory while Blunden was teaching in Tokyo between 1924 and 1927. Annotations in Blunden's hand added later at an unknown date. He writes, '[Caldwell had the job, I believe. He had done less than the others, but this must have made up for the deficit.]'