Wartime : Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War.
Fussell, Paul.
Wartime : Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (345 pages)
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.
Winner of the National Book Award, Paul Fussell's The Great War and Modern Memory was one of the most original and gripping volumes ever written about the First World War. In Wartime, Fussell turns to the Second World War, the conflict he himself fought in, to weave a narrative that is both more intensely personal and more wide-ranging. Fussell examines the immediate impact of the war on common soldiers and civilians; analyzes the euphemisms people needed to deal with unacceptable reality; and, most important, he emphasizes the damage the war did to intellect, discrimination, honesty, individuality, complexity, ambiguity and wit.
9780199763313
World War, 1939-1945-United States-Psychological aspects.
World War, 1939-1945-Great Britain-Psychological aspects.
World War, 1939-1945-Literature and the war.
World War, 1939-1945-Propaganda.
Electronic books.
D810.P7 .F877 1989
940.54/886/73
Wartime : Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (345 pages)
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.
Winner of the National Book Award, Paul Fussell's The Great War and Modern Memory was one of the most original and gripping volumes ever written about the First World War. In Wartime, Fussell turns to the Second World War, the conflict he himself fought in, to weave a narrative that is both more intensely personal and more wide-ranging. Fussell examines the immediate impact of the war on common soldiers and civilians; analyzes the euphemisms people needed to deal with unacceptable reality; and, most important, he emphasizes the damage the war did to intellect, discrimination, honesty, individuality, complexity, ambiguity and wit.
9780199763313
World War, 1939-1945-United States-Psychological aspects.
World War, 1939-1945-Great Britain-Psychological aspects.
World War, 1939-1945-Literature and the war.
World War, 1939-1945-Propaganda.
Electronic books.
D810.P7 .F877 1989
940.54/886/73