Paul Fussell (born March 22 , 1924 , Pasadena, California ) is a cultural historian, professor emeritus of the University of Pennsylvania , and author of books on eighteenth-century English literature, World War II , and social class. Sourced The Boys'...
Paul Fussell (born March 22, 1924, Pasadena, California, USA) is a cultural and literary historian, and professor emeritus of English literature at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of books on eighteenth-century English literature, the...
"Ninety-nine percent" of American troops "would have escaped if there had been any non-shameful way out." Historian and literary scholar Paul Fussell reaches this conclusion not about America's most hated war - Vietnam - but World War II, a war that has taken on...
New York: The Modern Library 208 pp., $19.95, ISBN 0-679-64088-6 Publication Date: September 2003 Paul Fussell, Professor Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania, is one of the greatest living chroniclers of World War II. Trained as a literary historian, he established a reputation...
This is based on Paul Fussell's claim that the best way to interpret the Great War is by the use of Irony in the writing. The written account of a specific battle amidst an ongoing war, gives the people who are away from the front a glimpse into the soldier's life. Vera Brittain's account as a nurse, gives a nurse's perspective, and also the details about the injuries, and the magnitude of the destruction a war causes physically, as well as mentally. Irony, therefore, is the best way to depict all the horri
