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Globe and Mail, May 4, 2012
...the Golden Age is a shame, because there are good things in his book. Like American literary scholar Paul Fussell, he criticizes The Enemy for popularizing euphemisms to camouflage wars nastiness (like neutralize for kill). He is on solid ground here (a...
The Week Magazine, May 4, 2012
...about learning to be a soldier. It really teaches you stuff. A wonderful book. The Boys' Crusade by Paul Fussell (Modern Library, $14). Fussell was an infantryman in Western Europe, where the average life expectancy on the line was 17 days. He survived...
Inc.com, March 26, 2012
...intellectual. Fortunately he took no offense. Among other books he recommended Michael Shaara’s The Killer Angels and Paul Fussell's The Great War and Modern Memory. And I remembered why I liked to read. He also gave me great advice. "Remember," he...
New Criterion, March 1, 2012
...G.I. plaster saints nobly fighting the Good War. To Schwarz, literary figures like the historian qua memoirist Paul Fussell have captured the true meaninglessness of it all. The latter view, Schwarz has written, that combat, even combat that defeats Nazi...
Zimbio, February 13, 2012
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Dallas Morning News, January 22, 2012
...on the Western Front," by Erich Maria Remarque, and "The Great War and Modern Memory," by Paul Fussell So hit me with your best ideas!...
Wichita Eagle, December 18, 2011
...oblique, poetic, humane and unconventional book. This fine book belongs on the shelf along with another unconventional classic, Paul Fussell’s “The Great War and Modern Memory.” Winston Groom’s book about the Mexican War is a conventional one,...
New Criterion, March 1, 2012
...G.I. plaster saints nobly fighting the Good War. To Schwarz, literary figures like the historian qua memoirist Paul Fussell have captured the true meaninglessness of it all. The latter view, Schwarz has written, that combat, even combat that defeats Nazi...
London Free Press, February 25, 2012
...first thing about me or the kind of day I'm likely to have. The curmudgeonly American writer, Paul Fussell, once wrote that he took great delight in responding to such chirpy dictums by saying, "Thanks but I've got other plans." So on the one hand it...
Zimbio, February 13, 2012
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Minnesota Public Radio, February 6, 2012
...One reason the Great War was more ironic than any other is that its beginning was more innocent." Paul Fussell The Great War and Modern Memory At 7:30 on the morning of July 1, 1916, an unnatural silence fell over the ruined landscape of the Somme River...
WBAL, January 31, 2012
...a different martial metaphor than those employed by our newly militaristic president last Tuesday. In his book Wartime, Paul Fussell, a veteran of the Pacific theater in World War II, devotes a whole chapter to "petty harassment" by those in...
REASON Online, January 31, 2012
...a different martial metaphor than those employed by our newly militaristic president last Tuesday. In his book Wartime, Paul Fussell, a veteran of the Pacific theater in World War II, devotes a whole chapter to "petty harassment" by those in...
Washington Examiner, January 31, 2012
...a different martial metaphor than those employed by our newly militaristic president last Tuesday. In his book "Wartime," Paul Fussell, a veteran of the Pacific theater in World War II, devotes a whole chapter to "petty harassment" by those in power --...
