false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172255932m/154474.jpg 154474 4 Paul Fussell, a distinguished literary historian, served as an infantry officer during World War II, and the experience has haunted him ever since. It has also informed his books, among them <b>The Great War in Modern Memory</b> and <b>Wartime</b>, a book that is part memoir, part cultural-critical study, and that is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of conflict. Fussell conjures the small details of battlefield experience -- the way a bird's song falls silent just before an artillery barrage, the curious plunking sound a spinning bullet makes, the drift of smoke over an obliterated village; he also evokes the Zeitgeist of the war years, an era when hometown grocery stores bore signs like this one: "Did you drown a sailor today because YOU bought a lamb chop without giving up the required coupons?" 1762410 1989 Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War total:98|5:34|4:44|3:17|2:3|1:0| 98 403 147 14 154474 0195065778 9780195065770 95 13 4.11 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172255932m/154474.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/154474.Wartime_Understanding_and_Behavior_in_the_Second_World_War 2 2 false Sat Dec 15 10:38:30 -0800 2007 Sat Dec 15 10:38:36 -0800 2007 154474 0195065778 9780195065770 95 13 4.11 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172255932m/154474.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/154474.Wartime_Understanding_and_Behavior_in_the_Second_World_War 3 1 false Sat Jun 16 08:17:40 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 17 17:08:02 -0700 2007 Wartime is a follow-up to Fussell's much better book on World War I, The Grea...more...]]> 154474 0195065778 9780195065770 95 13 4.11 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172255932m/154474.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/154474.Wartime_Understanding_and_Behavior_in_the_Second_World_War 3 0 false Thu Dec 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 15 17:59:16 -0800 2009 Fri Dec 04 12:31:46 -0800 2009 1 I will quickly start with what I disliked: This book felt like a number of essays put together as chapters. 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