Doing Battle: The Making of a Skeptic
by: Paul Fussell
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Dewey Decimal Number: 820.9
EAN: 9780316290616
ISBN: 0316290610
Label: Back Bay Books
Manufacturer: Back Bay Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: January 07, 1998
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Sales Rank: 401815
Studio: Back Bay Books
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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 literature, and as a cultural commentator and author of such abidingly relevant books as Thank God for the Atom Bomb, Class. Wartime, and The Great War and Modern Memory.
Doing Battle is at once a summing-up of one man's life and a profoundly thoughtful portrait of America's own search for identity in the second half of this century.
Amazon.com Review:
For most, World War II is nothing but a chapter in history--for most Americans, a rosy and happy one. But Paul Fussell, a novelist and WWII veteran, reminds us that only those who've experienced it can truly understand that war is hell. He writes with bite and humor of the horrors and inequalities of the so-called 'Good War,' which he says 'for the United States, [was] an unintended form of eugenics, clearing the population of the dumbest, the least skilled, the least promising of all Americans.' Not exactly the thoughts of a sentimentalist, but the notion that war is horrible should be eternally reinforced, and Fussell does so with a fury and skill few writers can muster.
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- Self-effacing, funny & profoundI read DOING BATTLE over a year ago while doing research for a WWII era biography I was writing. I ... Read More
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- Doing Battle: The Making of a SkepticUnless you enjoy seeing the US Army trashed save your money. Very twisted view of the WWII Army and ... Read More
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- Skeptic? Iconoclast? Anarchist? Unhappy."Doing Battle: The Making Of A Skeptic" By Paul Fussell
Little Brown And Company, Boston. 1996. ... Read More
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- Thank you PaulHis name must rhyme with tussle else the students he had at Connecticut College were not very good at poetry. ... Read More
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- I wish we were neighborsOther reviewers here seem to be approaching this book from the perspective of WW II experiences, or from reading ... Read More
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