Wartime
- 342 pages
- 12 hours of reading
* Shuns the heroics portrayed by Hollywood* Fussell concentrates on the human factor in World War II* Examines the everyday life British and American people experienced on the home and battle fronts
Paul Fussell Books
March 22, 1924 – May 23, 2012
Paul Fussell was an American cultural and literary historian whose work spanned diverse subjects, from scholarly explorations of eighteenth-century English literature to incisive commentary on America's class system. He is best known for his profound writings on the World Wars, deeply informed by his own experiences as an infantry officer in Europe. Fussell's prose is characterized by its sharp intellect, often employing irony and a keen eye for the absurdities of human behavior and societal structures. His literary legacy lies in his unique ability to illuminate the human condition through critical examinations of culture and history.
In this classic work Paul Fussell illuminates the British experience on the Western Front from 1914 to 1918, focusing primarily on the literary means by which the Great War has been remembered, conventionalized, and mythologized. Drawing on the work of important wartime poets such as David Jones and Wilfred Owen, on the memoirs of Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, and Edmund Blunden, and on numerous other personal records housed in the Imperial War Museum, this award-winning volume provides an intimate and intensely poetic account of an event that revolutionized the way we see the world.
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