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The Great War and Modern Memory
An Oxford University Press 25th-anniversary edition of Paul Fussell's 1975 study of the literature and language of the First World War. Fussell reads Sassoon, Graves, Owen, and others as witnesses who invented a modern way of writing about horror; the book is as much a history of irony as a history of combat. The Oxford binding is the sturdy academic kind, and the new afterword and reading list add apparatus without apology. It has become a standard text, which means it is often bought and underlined rather than read straight through. Ideal reader: the reader who wants to know how a generation learned to stop talking about glory, or the student who needs to understand why the war produced so many good poems.
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