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Edmund Bhmden's Ghosts                         15

published De Bella Germanica in an edition of 275 copies, of
which twenty-five were signed by Edmund Blunden.

Blunden spent much of the 1920s as a teacher in Tokyo. There
and then, but after considerable hesitation, he determined to "go
 

Edmund Blunden in uniform, ca. 1916.

over the gtound again," the ground "so thickly and innumerably
... strewn with the facts ot notions of war experience." The result
was Undertones of War, published by Richard Cobden-Sanderson
in December 1928.

This book. Undertones of War, begins with Blumlen's orders
and departure for I'rancc. Once past that, he takes up the same
events with wliich De Bella Germanica opens, that is, the arrival
at Bethune with his immediately subsequent movements. Under¬
tones of War, however, is far more extensive than the earlier book.
It covers the greater part of 1916-1917 with reference not onl\- to
the "holdintr attack" in the vicinity of Bethune but also to the
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