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Wartime : understanding and behavior in the Second World War / Paul Fussell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fussell, Paul, 1924-2012, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1939-1945--United States--Psychological aspects.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Great Britain--Psychological aspects.
- World War, 1939-1945--Literature and the war.
- World War, 1939-1945--Propaganda.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x,330p. ) ill.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, [1989]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- 1 From Light to Heavy Duty
- 2 "Precision Bombing Will Win the War
- 3 Someone Had Blundered
- 4 Rumors of War
- 5 School of the Soldier
- 6 Unread Books on a Shelf
- 7 Chickenshit, An Anatomy
- 8 "Drinking Far Too Much, Copulating Too Little
- 9 Type-casting
- 10 The Ideological Vacuum
- 11 Accentuate the Positive
- 12 High-mindedness
- 13 With One Voice
- 14 Deprivation
- 15 Compensation
- 16 Reading in Wartime
- 17 Fresh Idiom
- 18 "The Real War Will Never Get in the Books
- Notes
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y
- Z.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-319) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-976331-3
- OCLC:
- 958518680
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