“My experiences in the First World War have haunted me all my life and for many days I have, it seemed, lived in that world rather than this.”

Edmund Blunden wrote that over 40 years after he published Undertones of War. Readers like Ian Brinton find its economical prose, focusing on the mundane experiences of soldiers with a keen implied sense of the tragedy and waste of the war, one of the most memorable accounts of that world. It joins the US public domain in 51 days. #PublicDomainDayCountdown