Wartime

Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War

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Paul Fussell

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The Second World War 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. It 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.

Author Biography:

Paul Fussell is Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, and author of The Great War and Modern Memory (OUP 1975); Abroad (OUP 1982)

Release date NZ

September 28th, 1989

Author

Paul Fussell

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Illustrations

halftones throughout

Pages

342

Dimensions

165x242x25

ISBN-13

9780195037975

Product ID

6826353

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