This book looks into the question of the ways in which writers of the first world war wrote about the experiences of wartime, what they brought with them, and how they shaped writing afterward. Specifically, Paul Fussell is trying to bring a sense of British literature (well, British writing) to an American audience. Fussell is a literary scholar and an American combat veteran of World War II. If you’ve read his essays collection “Thank God for the Atom Bomb” you already know how he privileges […]