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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 inst

Who reads Wartime : Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War?

Author

Paul Fussell; Mazal Holocaust Collection

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Published

1989

Language

EN

ISBN

9780195065770

Category

history

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, Fiction

Rating

4.15 / 5 (16 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13