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Wartime: Understanding and Behaviour in the Second World War (Hardback)
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Short Description for WartimeThe book deals with the whole range of wartime experiences of British and American people: in battle, behind the lines, on the home front, in literature, and in everyday life.
Full description- Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
- Published: 28 September 1989
- Format: Hardback 342 pages
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- Categories: Literary Studies: General | Warfare & Defence | British & Irish History | History Of The Americas | Social & Cultural History | Second World War
- ISBN 13: 9780195037975 ISBN 10: 0195037979
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Full description for Wartime
The Second World War 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. It 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.
