Author:Fussell, Paul

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Poetic Meter and Poetic Form

By: Fussell, Paul

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Random House Inc: January 1985

Seller ID: 479216

ISBN: 0394321200

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War

By: Fussell, Paul

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Oxford University Press: October 1990

Seller ID: 96849

ISBN: 0195065778

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Winner of both the National Book Award for Arts and Letters and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, 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. Frank Kermode, in The New York Times Book Review, 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 i...
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The Great War and Modern Memory

By: Fussell, Paul

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press: March 2000

Edition: 25

Seller ID: 305233

ISBN: 0195133323

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The year 2000 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of The Great War and Modern Memory, winner of the National Book Award, 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 WWI remains as original and gripping today as ever before: a literate, literary, and illuminating account of the Great War, the one that changed a generation, ushered in the modern era, and revolutionized how we see the world. Exploring the work of Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, Edmund Blu...
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The Great War and Modern Memory

By: Fussell, Paul

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press: March 2000

Edition: 25

Seller ID: 434250

ISBN: 0195133323

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Doing Battle: The Making of a Skeptic

By: Fussell, Paul

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Back Bay Books: January 1998

Seller ID: 467679

ISBN: 0316290610

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Hailed by critics and readers across the country for its wit, irreverence, and unflinching honesty, Doing Battle illuminates the events and experiences that changed not only Paul Fussell but his entire generation.

Plucked from the pastoral middle-class sanctuary of Pasadena, where he grew up, twenty-year-old Fussell battle in southeastern France. While recovering from serious wounds he suffered in combat, Fussell vowed never to take orders again. His book makes clear how this newly subversive sensibility came to color all his later years -- as a Harvard Ph.D. student, as a professor of liter...
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Class: A Guide Through the American Status System

By: Fussell, Paul

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: October 1983

Seller ID: 470680

ISBN: 0671449915

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Great War and Modern Memory

By: Fussell, Paul

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press: March 2000

Edition: 25

Seller ID: 470763

ISBN: 0195133323

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Class : A Guide Through the American Status System

By: Fussell, Paul/ De Avillez, Mar

Price: $6.00

Publisher: TOUCHSTONE PR:

Seller ID: 64460

ISBN: 0671792253

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The bestselling, comprehensive, and carefully researched guide to the ins-and-outs of the American class system with a detailed look at the defining factors of each group, from customs to fashion to housing.

Based on careful research and told with grace and wit, Paul Fessell shows how everything people within American society do, say, and own reflects their social status. Detailing the lifestyles of each class, from the way they dress and where they live to their education and hobbies, Class is sure to entertain, enlighten, and occasionally enrage readers as they identify their own ...
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Thank God for the Atom Bomb and Other Essays

By: Genereal/Fussell, Paul

Price: $6.50

Publisher: BLACKWELL NORTH AMERICA:

Seller ID: 357720

ISBN: 0671638661

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Great War and Modern Memory

By: WW1/Fussell, Paul

Price: $7.00

Publisher: OXFORD UNIV PR:

Seller ID: 294620

ISBN: 0199971951

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Winner of both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award and named by the Modern Library one of the twentieth century's 100 Best Non-Fiction Books, Paul Fussell's The Great War and Modern Memory was universally acclaimed on publication in 1970. Today, Fussell's landmark study remains as original and gripping as ever: a literate, literary, and unapologetic account of the Great War, the war that changed a generation, ushered in the modern era, and revolutionized how we see the world.

This brilliant work illuminates the trauma and tragedy of modern warfare in...
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Boy's Crusade: the American Infantry in Northwestern Europe, 1944-1945

By: WW2/Fussell, Paul

Price: $6.00

Publisher: MODERN LIB: March 2015

Seller ID: 230097

ISBN: 0812974883

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Boys' Crusade is the great historian Paul Fussell's unflinching and unforgettable account of the American infantryman's experiences in Europe during World War II. Based in part on the author's own experiences, it provides a stirring narrative of what the war was actually like, from the point of view of the children--for children they were--who fought it. While dealing definitively with issues of strategy, leadership, context, and tactics, Fussell has an additional purpose: to tear away the veil of feel-good mythology that so often obscures and sanitizes war's brutal essence.

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Author:Fussell, Paul