Wartime : understanding and behavior in the Second World War / Paul Fussell.
Author
- Fussell, Paul 1924-2012 [author]
Published
- New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press [1989]
Physical description
1 online resource (x,330p. ) ill.
ISBN
- 0-19-976331-3
Notes
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-319) and index.
Subject
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Genre
- Bibliography
- Illustrated
- text
Language
- English
- World War II has been romanticized almost beyond recognition by "the sentimental, the loony patriotic, the ignorant, and the bloodthirsty". In this study, Paul Fussell goes behind the familiar diplomacy and heroics of history to examine the blunders, petty tyrannies, inconveniences, and deprivations that are many British and American people's memory of the War. There are lively sections on the role of drinking, tobacco, and sex in the war and on the home front; on propaganda; about writers and magazines who recorded the war or who attempted to keep aloft literary standards in a difficult time; on wartime slang and graphic recollections of the nightmare of combat.;The text is a companion to Fussell's "The Great War And Modern Memory", which won an American National Book Award and the National Critics Circle Prize.
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