Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World WarWinner of both the National Book Award for Arts and Letters and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, Paul Fussell's The Great War and Modern Memory was one of the most original and gripping volumes ever written about the First World War. Frank Kermode, in The New York Times Book Review, hailed it as an important contribution to our understanding of how we came to make World War I part of our minds, and Lionel Trilling called it simply one of the most deeply moving books I have read in a long time. In its panaramic scope and poetic intensity, it illuminated a war that changed a generation and revolutionized the way we see the world. Now, in Wartime, Fussell turns to the Second World War, the conflict he himself fought in, to weave a narrative that is both more intensely personal and more wide-ranging. Whereas his former book focused primarily on literary figures, on the image of the Great War in literature, here Fussell Fussell conveys the essence of that wartime as no other writer before him. For the past fifty years, the Allied War has been sanitized and romanticized almost beyond recognition by the sentimental, the loony patriotic, the ignorant, and the bloodthirsty. Americans, he says, have never understood |
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User Review - TimBazzett - LibraryThingPaul Fussell's WARTIME (1989) worked well as an "in-between-books" reader for me this past week. I've admired Fussell's work since seeing him (along with his late friend, Sam Hynes) in Ken Burns' PBS ... Read full review
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User Review - MasseyLibrary - LibraryThingFussell examines the immediate impact of the war on common soldiers and civilians. He describes the psychological and emotional atmosphere of World War II. He analyzes the euphemisms people needed to ... Read full review
Contents
From Light to Heavy Duty | 3 |
Precision Bombing Will Win the War | 13 |
Someone Had Blundered | 19 |
Rumors of War | 35 |
School of the Soldier | 52 |
Unread Books on a Shelf | 66 |
Chickenshit An Anatomy | 79 |
Drinking Far Too Much Copulating Too Little | 96 |
Highmindedness | 164 |
With One Voice | 180 |
Deprivation | 195 |
Compensation | 207 |
Reading in Wartime | 228 |
Fresh Idiom | 251 |
The Real War Will Never Get in the Books | 267 |
Notes | 299 |
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Wartime:Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War: Understanding ... Paul Fussell No preview available - 1989 |