Fussell 's 1975 literary study `` The Great War and Modern Memory '' won the National Book Award in category Arts and Letters . the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism , and the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award of Phi Beta Kappa .
Fussell 's 1975 book `` The Great War '' and `` Modern Memory '' won the National Book Award in category Arts and Letters , the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism , and the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award of Phi Beta Kappa .