The Great War and modern memory
By: Paul Fussell.
Edition: [25th anniversary ed.].
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
Subjects: English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; World War, 1914-1918 -- Great Britain -- Literature and the war; Memory in literature; War and literature
Description: This book is a landmark study about the British experience on the Western Front from 1914 to 1918 and some of the literary means by which it has been remembered, conventionalized, and mythologized. It is also about the literary dimensions of the trench experience itself.-Pref.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Originally published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1975.
Contains a new afterword.