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Wartime

Fussell, Paul

What did the Second World War do to the minds, words and honesty of ordinary Americans and Britons, and how was the truth softened?

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Author
Fussell, Paul

Why read it

  • You will notice how euphemism and cheerful messaging cover an ugly reality, in war and in other hard times
  • You will see how a war damages judgment, honesty and complexity as well as bodies and buildings
  • You will learn to ask whose voice a message really carries when every outlet seems to say the same thing

Who it is for

  • Readers who want the war without the glow
  • Anyone studying propaganda and public morale
  • Families curious what soldiers knew but could not say

Contents

  1. Preface
  2. 1 From Light to Heavy Duty
  3. 2 “Precision Bombing Will Win the War”
  4. 3 Someone Had Blundered
  5. 4 Rumors of War
  6. 5 School of the Soldier
  7. 6 Unread Books on a Shelf
  8. 7 Chickenshit, An Anatomy
  9. 8 Drinking Far Too Much, Copulating Too Little
  10. 9 Type-casting
  11. 10 The Ideological Vacuum
  12. 11 Accentuate the Positive
  13. 12 High-mindedness
  14. 13 With One Voice
  15. 14 Deprivation
  16. 15 Compensation
  17. 16 Reading in Wartime
  18. 17 Fresh Idiom
  19. 18 “The Real War Will Never Get in the Books”

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