{"product_id":"wartime-understanding-and-behavior-in-the-second-world-war-paperback","title":"Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePaul Fussell\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner of both the National Book Award for Arts and Letters and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, Paul Fussell's \u003cem\u003eThe Great War and Modern Memory\u003c\/em\u003e was one of the most original and gripping volumes ever written about the First World War. Frank Kermode, in \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eBook Review\u003c\/em\u003e, hailed it as \"an important contribution to our understanding of how we came to make World War I part of our minds,\" and Lionel Trilling called it simply \"one of the most deeply moving books I have read in a long time.\" In its panaramic scope and poetic intensity, it illuminated a war\u003cbr\u003ethat changed a generation and revolutionized the way we see the world. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNow, in \u003cem\u003eWartime\u003c\/em\u003e, 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. Whereas his former book focused primarily on literary figures, on the image of the Great War in literature, here Fussell\u003cbr\u003eexamines the immediate impact of the war on common soldiers and civilians. He describes the psychological and emotional atmosphere of World War II. He analyzes the euphemisms people needed to deal with unacceptable reality (the early belief, for instance, that the war could be won by \"precision\u003cbr\u003ebombing,\" that is, by long distance); he describes the abnormally intense frustration of desire and some of the means by which desire was satisfied; and, most important, he emphasizes the damage the war did to intellect, discrimination, honesty, individuality, complexity, ambiguity and wit. Of\u003cbr\u003ecourse, no Fussell book would be complete without some serious discussion of the literature of the time. He examines, for instance, how the great privations of wartime (when oranges would be raffled off as valued prizes) resulted in roccoco prose styles that dwelt longingly on lavish dinners, and\u003cbr\u003ehow the \"high-mindedness\" of the era and the almost pathological need to \"accentuate the positive\" led to the downfall of the acerbic H.L. Mencken and the ascent of E.B. White. He also offers astute commentary on Edmund Wilson's argument with Archibald MacLeish, Cyril Connolly's \u003cem\u003eHorizon\u003c\/em\u003e magazine, \u003cbr\u003ethe war poetry of Randall Jarrell and Louis Simpson, and many other aspects of the wartime literary world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFussell conveys the essence of that wartime as no other writer before him. For the past fifty years, the Allied War has been sanitized and romanticized almost beyond recognition by \"the sentimental, the loony patriotic, the ignorant, and the bloodthirsty.\" Americans, he says, have never understood\u003cbr\u003ewhat the Second World War was really like. In this stunning volume, he offers such an understanding.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaul Fussell\u003c\/strong\u003e is Donald T. Regan Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of nine other books, including \u003cem\u003eThe Great War and Modern Memory\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAbroad: British Literary Traveling Between the Wars\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Boy Scout Handbook and Other Observations\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.86 x 8.63 x 5.31 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 25, 1990\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52610348319027,"sku":"9780195065770","price":32.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/LzR1UEFaL3AvbW5nQ3d4bmtTZzZsdz09.webp?v=1761825186","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/wartime-understanding-and-behavior-in-the-second-world-war-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}