The Great War and Modern Memory (Edition 25) (Paperback)

from ManipledMutineer

A challenging read, not to be taken as a straight history of the First World War but as an informative and engaging tour of the way literature and drama both informed and were informed by the war, ...

from vguy

He wanders a bit and sometimes has a clever ( perhaps he would call it ironic) tone that seems frivolous in light of what he deals with, but ultimately the book delivers. A view of how these second...

from AlexTheHunn

Fussell takes us through various aspects of World War I, especially focusing on how the reality of the war differed from the offical version of it. He compares soldiers' experiences through their i...

from setnahkt

From the WWI reading program. Author Paul Fussell points out the number of terms that became permanent parts of the language due to WWI - "in the trenches", "going over the top", "no-man's land". (...

from TheAmpersand

While it's true that Fussell prefers later memoirs to more immediate accounts of the war and doesn't conclusively prove that the First World War was history's first or most ironic war, "The Great W...