Great War and Modern Memory

English

ISBN: 0195133315

EAN: 9780195133318

Category: History / Military / World War I

Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated

Release Date: 01/31/2000

Synopsis: The year 2000 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication ofThe Great War and Modern Memory, winner of the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and recently named by the Modern Library one of the twentieth centurys 100 Best Non-Fiction Books. Fussells landmark study of WWI remains as original and gripping today as ever before: a literate, literary, and illuminating account of the Great War, the one that changed a generation, ushered in the modern era, and revolutionized how we see the world. Exploring the work of Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, Edmund Blunden, David Jones, Isaac Rosenberg, and Wilfred Owen, Fussell supplies contexts, both actual and literary, for those writers who most effectively memorialized WWI as an historical experience with conspicuous imaginative and artistic meaning. For this special edition, the author has prepared a new introduction and afterword.

Awards: National Book Awards – null  National Book Awards – null 

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Great War and Modern Memory

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Hardcover

Edition: 25

Height: 0.79 inches

Width: 8.11 inches

Length: 5.31 inches

Weight: 17.64 oz

Pages: 384