Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War - Softcover

Fussell, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195065778 ISBN 13: 9780195065770

Verlag: Oxford University Press, 1990

Inhaltsangabe

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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Paul Fussell is Donald T. Regan Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of nine other books, including The Great War and Modern Memory, Abroad: British Literary Traveling Between the Wars and The Boy Scout Handbook and Other Observations

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1990
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0195065778
• ISBN 13: 9780195065770
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 346
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