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ISBN: 9780195065770

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Oxford University Press, Incorporated

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0195065778

ISBN-13

9780195065770

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Book Title

Wartime : Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War

Number of Pages

352 Pages

Language

English

Topic

Military / World War II

Publication Year

1990

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Yes

Genre

History

Author

Paul Fussell

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Trade Paperback

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Item Height

0.7 in

Item Weight

10.6 Oz

Item Length

5.4 in

Item Width

8 in

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89-002875

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"This brilliant, engaging cultural history quietly subverts ourwhitewashed collective memory of the war."--Publishers Weekly, "Fussell is a wonderful writer--at once elegant and earthy. He gives us much to ponder in this volume, and, despite the grimness of the subject, considerable pleasure."--The Washington Post Book World, "[An] engaging, elegant, and enlightening study of World War II....Funny, upsetting, at times brilliantly illuminating."--Kirkus Reviews, "Overall it's an excellent book for an upper-level undergraduat course: Well-written, nicely chosen quotations, graphically realistic for the uninitiated."--John Kutolowski, SUNY Brockport, "Paul Fussell has written the best book I know of about World War I. Now he has written the best book I know of about the Second World War. No novel I've read surpasses its depiction of the awful human cost to all sides of modern warfare. I don't think I'm exaggerating when I say it is unforgettable."--Joseph Heller"This brilliant, engaging cultural history quietly subverts our whitewashed collective memory of the war."--Publishers Weekly"Fussell is a wonderful writer--at once elegant and earthy. He gives us much to ponder in this volume, and...considerable pleasure."--The Washington Post Book World"An excellent study. Compliments the great War and Modern Memory. Will use again!"--Kirk Bunte, Mesa State College"Different, distinctive, valuable--I've already adopted it for this semester."--Professor John R.M. Wilson, Southern California College, "Paul Fussell has written the best book I know of about World War I. Now he has written the best book I know of about the Second World War. No novel I've read surpasses its depiction of the awful human cost to all sides of modern warfare. I don't think I'm exaggerating when I say it is unforgettable."--Joseph Heller "This brilliant, engaging cultural history quietly subverts our whitewashed collective memory of the war."--Publishers Weekly "Fussell is a wonderful writer--at once elegant and earthy. He gives us much to ponder in this volume, and...considerable pleasure."--The Washington Post Book World "An excellent study. Compliments the great War and Modern Memory. Will use again!"--Kirk Bunte, Mesa State College "Different, distinctive, valuable - I've already adopted it for this semester."--Professor John R.M. Wilson, Southern California College, "All college students should be required to make an analysis of the greatest and most tragic human drama-war. Paul Fussell's Wartime is vividly and coherently written and he cuts through the patriotic myths and stereotypes of WWII. It should be required reading for all studying the socialsciences even if only to obtain an objective viewpoint in regard to war."--Dr. Robert Vorley Russell, Nova Univ., "Paul Fussell has written the best book I know of about World War I. Nowhe has written the best book I know of about the Second World War. No novelI've read surpasses its depiction of the awful human cost to all sides of modernwarfare. I don't think I'm exaggerating when I say it isunforgettable."--Joseph Heller, "This brilliant, engaging cultural history quietly subverts our whitewashed collective memory of the war."--Publishers Weekly, "[An] engaging, elegant, and enlightening study of World War II....Funny,upsetting, at times brilliantly illuminating."--Kirkus Reviews, "Paul Fussell has written the best book I know of about World War I. Now he has written the best book I know of about the Second World War. No novel I've read surpasses its depiction of the awful human cost to all sides of modern warfare. I don't think I'm exaggerating when I say it isunforgettable."--Joseph Heller, "Really makes the war come alive and [is] more meaningful for the students."--Paul R. Waibel, Belhaven College, "A generally fine, informative, sometimes passionate study of a time, some people, and many works that educated me once again."--George Grella, University of Rochester, "A generally fine, informative, sometimes passionate study of a time, somepeople, and mny works that educated me once again."--George Grella, Universityof Rochester, "Paul Fussell has written the best book I know of about World War I. Now he has written the best book I know of about the Second World War. No novel I've read surpasses its depiction of the awful human cost to all sides of modern warfare. I don't think I'm exaggerating when I say it is unforgettable."--Joseph Heller "This brilliant, engaging cultural history quietly subverts our whitewashed collective memory of the war."--Publishers Weekly "Fussell is a wonderful writer--at once elegant and earthy. He gives us much to ponder in this volume, and...considerable pleasure."--The Washington Post Book World "An excellent study. Compliments the great War and Modern Memory. Will use again!"--Kirk Bunte, Mesa State College "Different, distinctive, valuable--I've already adopted it for this semester."--Professor John R.M. Wilson, Southern California College, "Overall it's an excellent book for an upper-level undergraduat course:Well-written, nicely chosen quotations, graphically realistic for theuninitiated."--John Kutolowski, SUNY Brockport, "All college students should be required to make an analysis of thegreatest and most tragic human drama-war. Paul Fussell's Wartime is vividly andcoherently written and he cuts through the patriotic myths and stereotypes ofWWII. It should be required reading for all studying the social sciences evenif only to obtain an objective viewpoint in regard to war."--Dr. Robert VorleyRussell, Nova Univ., "Fussell is a wonderful writer--at once elegant and earthy. He gives usmuch to ponder in this volume, and, despite the grimness of the subject,considerable pleasure."--The Washington Post Book World, "Paul Fussell has written the best book I know of about World War I. Now he has written the best book I know of about the Second World War. No novel I've read surpasses its depiction of the awful human cost to all sides of modern warfare. I don't think I'm exaggerating when I say it is unforgettable."--Joseph Heller "This brilliant, engaging cultural history quietly subverts our whitewashed collective memory of the war."--Publishers Weekly "Fussell is a wonderful writer--at once elegant and earthy. He gives us much to ponder in this volume, and...considerable pleasure."--The Washington Post Book World "An excellent study. Compliments the great War and Modern Memory. Will use again!"--Kirk Bunte,Mesa State College "Different, distinctive, valuable - I've already adopted it for this semester."--Professor John R.M. Wilson,Southern California College, "This book allows my students to be as close to the human experience of war as possible, to understand the mentality and experience of those who fought."--Jeffrey S. McIllwain, Penn State University

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940.54/886/73

Edition Description

Reprint

Synopsis

Winner 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 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 deal with unacceptable reality (the early belief, for instance, that the war could be won by "precision bombing," that is, by long distance); he describes the abnormally intense frustration of desire and some of the means by which desire was satisfied; and, most important, he emphasizes the damage the war did to intellect, discrimination, honesty, individuality, complexity, ambiguity and wit. Of course, no Fussell book would be complete without some serious discussion of the literature of the time. He examines, for instance, how the great privations of wartime (when oranges would be raffled off as valued prizes) resulted in roccoco prose styles that dwelt longingly on lavish dinners, and how the "high-mindedness" of the era and the almost pathological need to "accentuate the positive" led to the downfall of the acerbic H.L. Mencken and the ascent of E.B. White. He also offers astute commentary on Edmund Wilson's argument with Archibald MacLeish, Cyril Connolly's Horizon magazine, the war poetry of Randall Jarrell and Louis Simpson, and many other aspects of the wartime literary world. 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 what the Second World War was really like. In this stunning volume, he offers such an understanding., Winner 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 itsimply "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 theworld.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 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 theeuphemisms people needed to deal with unacceptable reality (the early belief, for instance, that the war could be won by "precision bombing," that is, by long distance); he describes the abnormally intensefrustration of desire and some of the means by which desire was satisfied; and, most important, he emphasizes the damage the war did to intellect, discrimination, honesty, individuality, complexity, ambiguity and wit. Of course, no Fussell book would be complete without some serious discussion of the literature of the time. He examines, for instance, how the great privations of wartime (when oranges would be raffled off as valued prizes) resulted in roccoco prose styles that dwelt longinglyon lavish dinners, and how the "high-mindedness" of the era and the almost pathological need to "accentuate the positive" led to the downfall of the acerbic H.L. Mencken and the ascent of E.B. White. Healso offers astute commentary on Edmund Wilson's argument with Archibald MacLeish, Cyril Connolly's Horizon magazine, the war poetry of Randall Jarrell and Louis Simpson, and many other aspects of the wartime literary world. 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 thebloodthirsty." Americans, he says, have never understood what the Second World War was really like. In this stunning volume, he offers such an understanding., Winner of both the National Book Award for Arts and Letters and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, Paul Fussell's classic The Great War and Modern Memory remains one of the most original and gripping volumes ever written about the First World War. In its panoramic scope and poetic intensity, it illuminated a war that changed a generation and revolutionized the way we see the world. Now, in Wartime, Paul Fussell turns to the Second World War, the conflict in which he himself fought, to weave a more intensely personal and wide-ranging narrative. Whereas his former book focused primarily on literary figures, here Fussell examines the immediate impact of the war on soldiers and civilians. He compellingly depicts the psychological and emotional atmosphere of World War II by analyzing the wishful thinking and the euphemisms people needed to deal with unacceptable reality; by describing the abnormally intense frustration of desire and some of the means by which desire was satisfied; and, most importantly, by emphasizing the damage the war did to intellect, discrimination, honesty, individuality, complexity, ambiguity, and wit. Of course, no book of Fussell's would be complete without serious attention to the literature of the time. He offers astute commentary on Edmund Wilson's argument with Archibald MacLeish, Cyril Connolly's Horizon magazine, the war poetry of Randall Jarrell and Louis Simpson, and many other aspects of the wartime literary world. In this stunning volume, Fussell conveys the essence of that war as no other writer before him has., Winner of the National Book Award, 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. 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. Fussell examines the immediate impact of the war on common soldiers and civilians; analyzes the euphemismspeople needed to deal with unacceptable reality; and, most important, he emphasizes the damage the war did to intellect, discrimination, honesty, individuality, complexity, ambiguity and wit.

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