Wartime Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War

by Fussell, Paul

• ISBN13: 9780195065770
• ISBN10: 0195065778
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1990-10-25
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Paul Fussell examines the immediate impact of World War II on soldiers and civilians. He depicts the psychological and emotional atmosphere of World War II by, most importantly, emphasizing the damage the war did to intellect, discrimination, honesty, individuality, complexity, ambiguity, and wit.

Author Biography

Paul Fussell is Donald T. Regan Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of nine other books, including Abroad: British Literary Traveling Between the Wars and The Boy Scout Handbook and Other Observations.

Table of Contents

1 From Light to Heavy Duty	3	(10)
2 "Precision Bombing Will Win the War"	13	(6)
3 Someone Had Blundered	19	(16)
4 Rumors of War	35	(17)
5 School of the Soldier	52	(14)
6 Unread Books on a Shelf	66	(13)
7 Chickenshit, An Anatomy	79	(17)
8 Drinking Far Too Much, Copulating Too Little	96	(19)
9 Type-casting	115	(14)
10 The Ideological Vacuum	129	(14)
11 Accentuate the Positive	143	(21)
12 High-mindedness	164	(16)
13 With One Voice	180	(15)
14 Deprivation	195	(12)
15 Compensation	207	(21)
16 Reading in Wartime	228	(23)
17 Fresh Idiom	251	(16)
18 "The Real War Will Never Get in the Books"	267	(32)
Notes	299	(22)
Index	321