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Overview

The year 2000 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of The Great War and Modern Memory, winner of the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and recently named by the Modern Library one of the twentieth century's 100 Best Non-Fiction Books. Fussell's landmark study of World War I remains as original and gripping today as ever before: a literate, literary, and illuminating account of the Great War, the war that changed a generation, ushered in the modern era, and revolutionized how we see the world.

For this special edition the author has prepared a new Afterword, providing insights into the writing of this classic work.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781402764394
  • Publisher: Sterling
  • Publication date: 11/3/2009
  • Edition description: Illustrated Edition
  • Pages: 464
  • Sales rank: 92,503
  • Product dimensions: 7.50 (w) x 9.30 (h) x 1.40 (d)

Meet the Author

Paul Fussell is a professor emeritus of English Literature at the University of Pennsylvania who served as an infantry officer during World War II. He is the acclaimed author of more than 20 books, including Class: a Guide Through the American Status System (Touchstone 1992) and The Boys' Crusade: The American Infantry in Northwestern Europe, 1944-1945 (Modern Library 2005).

Table of Contents

I A Satire of Circumstance 3
II The Troglodyte World 36
III Adversary Proceedings 75
IV Myth, Ritual, and Romance 114
V Oh What a Literary War 155
VI Theater of War 191
VII Arcadian Recourses 231
VIII Soldier Boys 270
IX Persistence and Memory 310
Afterword 336
Notes 343
Index 360

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 9, 2001

    The Hideous 20th Century

    Literary critic Paul Fussell located our century's literary and martial birth in the appalling British trenches of World War I in his insightful and thoroughly documented book, 'The Great War and Modern Memory.' He covers in detail the memoirs of Siegfried Sassoon, Edmund Blunden, Robert Graves (of I, Claudius fame) and the poetry of Wilfred Owen, along with many others. We return to 1914, when there was no radio, no TV, no movies to speak of, and when the populace had implicit faith in their press, their King and 'progress.' The central irony of this book was that the population rushed to support the war in order to support these 19th century ideals, ideals which would be shattered in the war that gave birth to the twentieth century. Fussell documents how World War I gave us the standardized form, the wristwatch, daylight savings time, civilian censorship and bureaucratic euphemism--and for the first time, despair that technology was driving civilization into perpetual war. 'The Great War and Modern Memory' is probably one of the most significant academic works of the late 20th Century. Whether you agree with Fussell or not, you're bound to learn a lot--fortunately, his writing style is eminently comfortable.

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  • Posted July 18, 2011

    A Typographical Mess of One of my Favorites

    Any one interested in the history of the First World War should read this book. It stands alone. I am just complaining of the numerous typographical errors in this edition. Barnes and Noble charges good money for a clearly digitized version of a very scholarly work.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 13, 2010

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    More Literature than History

    This book is a discussion of literature during the First World War. It lacks the research of a true historical text. It is more a book about poetry than a book of great historical importance. Fussell fails to explain many of his literary references. Unless you are someone with a vast content knowledge of World War One British literature you will be lost in places of this book.

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