The Great War and Modern Memory

Name: The Great War and Modern Memory
ISBN: 9780195133325

Paul Fussell

1975·431 pages·Nonfiction

Historical Fiction History & Politics

National Book Award (1976) · Nominee

“probing, sympathetic, and illuminating”
— The New Republic

“humanly wise and compassionate”
— Saturday Review

“original and brilliant”
— Lionel Trilling

“bright and sensitive”
— The New Yorker

In this classic work, Paul Fussell illuminates the British experience on the Western Front from 1914 to 1918, focusing primarily on the literary means by which The Great War has been remembered, conventionalized, and mythologized. Drawing on the work of important wartime poets such as David Jones and Wilfred Owen, on the memoirs of Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, and Edmund Blunden, and on numerous other personal records housed in the Imperial War Museum, this volume provides an intimate and intensely poetic account of the event that revolutionized the way we see the world. It is an undisputed classic of cultural criticism.

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