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Doing Battle : The Making of a Skeptic by Paul Fussell (1998, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherLittle Brown & Company

ISBN-100316290610

ISBN-139780316290616

eBay Product ID (ePID)861025

Product Key Features

Book TitleDoing Battle : the Making of a Skeptic

Number of Pages336 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicMilitary / World War II, General, Educators

Publication Year1998

IllustratorYes

GenreLiterary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography, History

AuthorPaul Fussell

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight12.3 Oz

Item Length8.2 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN96-003451

Dewey Edition20

Dewey Decimal820.9 B

SynopsisIn this highly praised autobiographical work, the author of "The Great War" and "Modern Memory" recounts his own experience of combat in World War II and how it became a determining force in his life. "Doing Battle" is at once a summing-up of one man's life and a profoundly thoughtful portrait of America's own search for identity in the second half of this century. of photos., Hailed by critics and readers across the country for its wit, irreverence, and unflinching honesty, Doing Battle illuminates the events and experiences that changed not only Paul Fussell but his entire generation. Plucked from the pastoral middle-class sanctuary of Pasadena, where he grew up, twenty-year-old Fussell battle in southeastern France. While recovering from serious wounds he suffered in combat, Fussell vowed never to take orders again. His book makes clear how this newly subversive sensibility came to color all his later years -- as a Harvard Ph.D. student, as a professor of literature, and as a cultural commentator and author of such abidingly relevant books as Thank God for the Atom Bomb, Class. Wartime, and The Great War and Modern Memory. Doing Battle is at once a summing-up of one man's life and a profoundly thoughtful portrait of America's own search for identity in the second half of this century.