Wartime
Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War
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1989
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-503797-5 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-503797-5 (ISBN)
* Shuns the heroics portrayed by Hollywood
* Fussell concentrates on the human factor in World War II
* Examines the everyday life British and American people experienced on the home and battle fronts
The Second World War has been romanticized almost beyond recognition by 'the sentimental, the loony patriotic, the ignorant, and the bloodthirsty.' In this readable and penetrating 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.
Written with a keen intelligence and deep emotion, Wartime is a worthy companion to Fussell's The Great War And Modern Memory , which won an American National Book Award and the National Critics Circle prize.
* Fussell concentrates on the human factor in World War II
* Examines the everyday life British and American people experienced on the home and battle fronts
The Second World War has been romanticized almost beyond recognition by 'the sentimental, the loony patriotic, the ignorant, and the bloodthirsty.' In this readable and penetrating 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.
Written with a keen intelligence and deep emotion, Wartime is a worthy companion to Fussell's The Great War And Modern Memory , which won an American National Book Award and the National Critics Circle prize.
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)
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 28.9.1989 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | halftones throughout |
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 164 x 240 mm |
| Gewicht | 640 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945 |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-503797-9 / 0195037979 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-503797-5 / 9780195037975 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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