In Retreat

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Vanessa Bell, front cover of "In Retreat"

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In Retreat

Author:

Herbert Read

Publication Date:

1925

Genre:

Poetry

Language:

English

Illustrator:

Vanessa Bell

Publisher:

The Hogarth Press

Dust Jacket Designer:

Vanessa Bell

Hogarth Essays, First Series, No 6. 

Read's autobiographical account of life on the Western Front, In Retreat is a viscerally violent and tactile portrait of the experience of living in the trenches. The book has been read alongside other first-hand accounts of WWI including Wilfred Owen's and Siegfried Sassoon's