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	A Conversation with Paul Fussell
		Fussell, a retired University of Pennsylania professor, is editor of The Norton Book of Modern War and the author of many books, among them Thank God for the Atom Bomb and Other Essays and the award-winning The Great War and Modern Memory.
		Fussell: Yes, because the English department seems to be far gone in little local debates about French literary theory, in which I have no interest whatever.
		Fussell: They have experienced secretly and privately their natural human impulse toward sadism and brutality.
	www.neh.gov /news/humanities/1996-11/fussell.html (2503 words)

	14 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		When Fussell left to attend Pomona in 1944, she found a whole new world where "To be able to open any kind of soft drink with an experienced flip of the wrist was to open the mouths of new worlds.
		Early in their marriage, when Paul was doing graduate work at Harvard, she decided to study for a master's degree at Radcliffe, being careful to stay "three steps behind, like a Chinese wife." This was perhaps her first step, albeit cautiously taken, outside the constraints of her marriage.
		Fussell describes her own this way: "Now my body felt like one of my meals, the interstices of ears like snails, the hollow of armpits like the hollow of a pitted avocado, the smooth valleys between thigh and groin like a sauce parisienne.
	www.pomona.edu /Magazine/pcmsp00/14.shtml (779 words)

	Paul Fussell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Paul Fussell (born 1924, Pasadena, California) is a cultural historian and a professor emeritus of English literature of the University of Pennsylvania.
		Fussell was drafted into the Army in 1943, at age 19.
		His son, Samuel Fussell, is the author of Muscle: Confessions of an Unlikely Bodybuilder.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Paul_Fussell (533 words)

	Books: Mealy Mouthed (Memphis Flyer . 11-08-99)
		Paul Fussell chose an educated, intelligent wife because he wanted a woman he could talk to, someone who was his intellectual near-match.
		Betty Fussell chronicles her transformation from a young wife cooking hot dogs and macaroni and cheese for her husband to a Julia Child protégée preparing French cuisine for dinner parties of 200.
		Her treatment of Paul Fussell sometimes seems like a long-delayed (and possibly well-deserved) act of revenge, as when she relates his fondness for Day-Glo nylon bikini briefs and obsession with shaving his pubic hair that preceded his eventual outing as a lover of college-age boys.
	weeklywire.com /ww/11-08-99/memphis_book.html (656 words)

	Profile: Paul Fussell \| Review \| Guardian Unlimited Books
		Paul Jnr's mother, born Wilhma Wilson Sill in Indiana in 1894, met her future husband in high school, and they settled down happily enough in comfortable, conservative suburbia.
		Fussell, who hit back with a review of Raban's Old Glory (1981) in the TLS, admits to a nostalgic thread in his work "because it's a way of criticising the current, suggesting things were once much more interesting and better".
		Fussell is a man of strong opinions, and there are many things he either loves or hates.
	books.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,12084,1272672,00.html (3222 words)

	The Great War and Modern Memory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Fussell analyzes a vast array of poetry, memoirs, and prose-written both during and after the war-to convey the experiences and emotions of British officers and men who took part in such horrible battles as: the Somme, Ypres, and Passchendaele.
		Fussell levels a number of harsh criticisms at American writers, particularly Earnest Hemingway, claiming they existed in a literary vacuum "devoid of a Chaucer, a Spencer, a Shakespeare." Fussell points out that, just prior to World War I, England had undergone a literary surge that had transcended existing class structures.
		Fussell plays particular attention to the element of irony, its construction of themes and its influence on future generations of wartime writers.
	www.jemsfurniture.com /BookStore/isbn0195133323.html (1009 words)

	James J. Martin: WAR TIME: UNDERSTANDING AND BEHAVIOR IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR by Paul Fussell (Review)
		Fussell is a foxy and subtle writer who enjoys distinction among pedagogues; he actually is vastly readable, as against the general output of a class of users of the printed form who make about the same impression in English as they might in Sanskrit.
		Fussell describes as the Second War’s "singing anthem," the "Beer Barrel Polka," was a pre-war importation from Czecho-Slovakia, performed by a Prague musette-orchestra, and was on the juke boxes of the country nation-wide as a wordless instrumental number well before a set of lyrics in English were supplied and generally sung in accompaniment.
		Fussell's strong suit is analysis of advertising in American magazines of the war era, but he neglects the part played by advertisers, not in trying to sell the war and everyone doing their part, but in trying to prime future consumers for the period after the war, a sorry ploy grossly overplayed by all.
	www.vho.org /GB/Journals/JHR/10/1/Martin59-80.html (4758 words)

	Profile: Paul Fussell \| By genre \| Guardian Unlimited Books
		Fussell showed that the British were masters of a euphemistic diction whereby, in wartime, friends became "comrades", danger was "peril", to die was "to perish" and the dead were "the fallen" or "the dust".
		Paul Fussell Sr was a successful corporate lawyer who drove the 20 miles from Pasadena to Los Angeles every morning.
		On the one hand, Fussell was outraged that any kind of college course was enough to get you out of the draft, meaning that the 50,000 American soldiers killed in Vietnam were disproportionately poor and badly educated.
	books.guardian.co.uk /departments/history/story/0,6000,1272911,00.html (3214 words)

	Boston.com / A&E / Books / Young guns
		Fussell alludes to important milestones and achievements in the war, such as the British capture of a German encoding machine named Enigma or the mobilization of American industry to produce jeeps, bullets, and tanks, but does not fully develop their importance.
		Fussell tells the story of one front-line troop in Western Europe who, wearing as many as five or six layers of clothing to hold off the December cold, was suffering from the rampant diarrhea that plagued the soldiers.
		Fussell writes in the words of another unnamed soldier: "Aiming for the latrine, [he] slipped and fell in the mud and crapped his clothes.
	www.boston.com /ae/books/articles/2003/09/21/young_guns?mode=PF (783 words)

	August 6, 2001: Book review: Class by Paul Fussell
		Fussell lists many other giveaways--clothing, interior and exterior of one's house, and so on--that are too numerous to go into here.
		Fussell mentions that spotless is a favorite word; they must keep their homes spotless so visitors won't think badly of them.
		Fussell mentions The Official Preppy Handbook as the bible of the upper-middles, and notes their tendency to layer several Izod shirts on top of one another.
	www.paulryburn.com /journal/aug_6_2001.html (1841 words)

	Poetic Meter and Poetic Form (Paul Fussell) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Fussell's foreword says that his book is for aspiring readers, not aspiring writers.
		The book's real strength, besides Professor Fussell's obvious command of his subject, and his ability to convey that command, is in the sprinkling of dozens of anecdotes by and about poets about other poets and poetry.
		Fussell has a masterful understanding of the material and handles it with great style and insight.
	www.interference.com /webstore/us/product/0075536064.htm (484 words)

	Class (John's Book Pages)
		I didn't always agree: there were scattered paragraphs and even whole pages that I thought were crap (for example, Fussell claims that the upper classes are better looking because of selective breeding, without even mentioning that better nutrition and health care might also be factors) but for the most part this book is right on.
		I had a slight problem with the fact that the bulk of Fussell's cracks are directed at the middle class.
		In the final chapter, Fussell answers these concerns by proposing a new category consisting of people who somehow shed their classhood.
	books.regehr.org /reviews/class.html (564 words)

	BOOK TV.ORG (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Fussell remarks upon war's traumatic effects upon the individual soldier and the civilian.
		Author Bio: Paul Fussell has written fifteen books including "The Great War and Modern Memory," which won the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and was listed as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of the twentieth century by the Modern Library.
		Fussell spent many years as a professor of literature at the University of Pennsylvania and at Rutgers University.
	www.booktv.org /History/index.asp?segID=4150&schedID=234 (145 words)

	Uniforms: Why We Are What We Wear -- book review
		Fussell also does little to answer the titular question: "why we are what we wear."
		One of the advantages that a uniform affords its wearer is the ability to skimp on "the work of remaking one's external character all the time." That, of course, is one of a uniform's many advantages, but the flip side is a concurrent loss of individuality.
		Fussell points out that American uniform use was widely considered "sloppery." Europeans in WWII, it seems, were enraptured by the sloppiness of American army personnel, uniform and all.
	www.curledup.com /uniforms.htm (600 words)

	Clothes-Minded
		Paul Fussell explores why how we dress is how we are.
		Fussell freely admits that he's always had a thing for uniforms.
		Paul Fussell began looking for patterns, noting that nuns have dropped the practice of wearing habits for a similar reason.
	www.citypaper.net /articles/2002-12-05/cover2.shtml (712 words)

	Alibris: Paul Fussell
		Paul Fussell's great book explores World War I as a cultural phenomenon--a cataclysmic force that wrought indelible changes in patterns of thought, habits of trust, and the literary imagination.
		Paul Fussell recalls his experience as a young man in the infantry during the Second World War.
		Paul Fussell writes that we are living "in a moment teeming with raucously overvalued emptiness and trash".
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Paul_Fussell (931 words)

	Review on Great War and Modern Memory, The - Paul Fussell by steveleenow - MouthShut.com
		And Fussell actually emphasizes this in his own afterward, noting how ’’I came across this picture by sheer accident in the War Museum, and sensed that the boy’s expression was unmistakably ’twentieth century.’ If anyone ever looked aware of being doomed to meaningless death, it is this boy’’ (342).
		Fussell presents the main direction for his book in the very first sentence of his preface, stating that ’ this book is about the British experience on the Western Front from 1914 to 1918 and some of the literary means by which it has been remembered, conventionalized, and mythologized.
		Fussell’s book needs to be read as it politely challenges its readers to reconsider and question life.
	www.mouthshut.com /review/Great_War_and_Modern_Memory___The_-_Paul_Fussell-29916-1.html (1012 words)

	Salon.com Books \| Patriotic gore
		In Paul Fussell's newest World War II chronicle, the GIs who defeated the Nazis fought an ugly, dirty, bloody war that brutalized them all and ennobled no one.
		Fussell has long insisted that for the critic and the historian the importance of experience, "sheer, vulgar experience," as he calls it, trumps received ideas of propriety, niceness and comfort.
		Working as both a critic and a historian, Fussell has long relied on the testimony left behind by memoirs, journals and letters, history written by those present at the events they are recording.
	www.salon.com /books/review/2003/09/22/fussell (366 words)

	Books In Review: The Anti-Egotist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Fussell is also brilliant when he writes about the Second World War; "My War," for example, which vividly recounts his own harrowing experience of that conflict, is surely among the best essays written by any American in the past fifty years.
		Fussell, who has also written widely on English Augustan literature, contends that Amis is best viewed within a tradition of "moral satire" that also includes Swift and Pope, Mark Twain and Flaubert.
		As Fussell demonstrates in The Anti-Egotist, Amis is a very thoughtful and literate man devoted to the sound and sane discussion of literature at a time when much criticism reveals more the desire to obfuscate than to delight.
	www.firstthings.com /ftissues/ft9511/reviews/murray.html (1188 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Books: Boy's Crusade, by Paul Fussell, Hardcover
		Fussell also tends toward space-consuming jabs at rival schools of interpretations and even journalists as distinguished as Ernie Pyle.
		In a series of essays dealing with strategy, tactics, and leadership from the landings at Normandy to the fall of Berlin, Fussell (The Great War and Human Memory), a decorated infantry officer of the European campaigns of 1944-45, comes as close to the unvarnished truth as is ever likely to see print.
		Beginning with a chapter titled "Boy Crusaders," Fussell describes the typical GI as 18 to 20 years old, from all types of social and educational backgrounds, taken from minimal training and thrown into ground combat of the fiercest kind.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&EAN=9780786264261&itm=9 (727 words)

	Online NewsHour: Gergen Dialogue--War & Peace--May 29, 1997
		Paul Fussell, author of Doing Battle: The Making of a Skeptic, discusses the rigors of war and the personal lessons he learned from his experiences in World War II.
		PAUL FUSSELL, Author, Doing Battle: Well, I think it was a good war in many ways.
		PAUL FUSSELL: Irony is related to me, to the idea of tragedy, which is--you’ve lost already--you’ve lost already.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/gergen/may97/battle_5-29.html (1386 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Great War and Modern Memory: Books: Paul Fussell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Fussell proposes a valid rationale for the limitations he imposes, (apart from keeping the study at a manageable size,) that is, the majority of Great War literature is British and generally a product of the trench experience.
		The starting-point of Fussell's study bears a striking resemblance with two IWM pictures featured on opposite pages in his book: one of a neat row of officers inspecting model trenches at a military school, the other an eloquent testimony to the harsh realities of the 'Troglodyte' hell on the Somme.
		In literary terms, Fussell argues, it was a war waiting to happen...Fussell is a major scholar, but the book comes across as deeply personal, full of sad reflection on war and what it means for a culture and a literary tradition.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Great-War-Modern-Memory/dp/0195133323 (1965 words)

	Amazon.com: Doing Battle: The Making of a Skeptic: Books: Paul Fussell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Fussell, who grew up in the "highly privileged suburb" of Pasadena, Calif., was called to active duty in May 1943.
		Fussell traces the effects of war on his later activities, covering his personal life, his teaching and his writing.
		Because Paul Fussell was privileged to attend such a fancy college when most Americans did not go on to "Higher" education, the author had the opportunity to become an officer in the United States Army.
	www.amazon.com /Doing-Battle-Skeptic-Paul-Fussell/dp/0316290610 (2569 words)

	Paul Fussell
		Philadelphian Paul Fussell is best known for The Great War and Modern Memory (which won the National Book Award) and Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War.
		Fussell's newly published memoir, Doing Battle: The Making of a Skeptic, is more than a simply told life story.
		Russell Baker calls it "a wonderfully angry memoir." Yet it is a tender memoir as well, as Fussell exposes his ability to be moved by that which is honest in art, culture and life.
	www.citypaper.net /articles/110796/article067.shtml (152 words)

	The Boys' Crusade: the American Infantry in Northwestern Europe, 1944-1945 by Paul Fussell, Search Cheap Books, ...
		Fussell finds his experience echoed in that of another memoirist, Robert Kotlowitz, and quotes copiously from Before Their Time (1997) to illustrate the training of a soldier; frictions with the British and the French; and being ordered into combat by mulish or inept officers.
		I bring this up because, despite Fussell's assertion, the average age of the Army's GI in WWII (including frontline troops) was 25, in stark contrast to the Marines' average of 19.
		I say all this in preface, since one of Fussells points is that the experience of combat is brutal, dehumanizing and had long term detrimental effects on the soldiers who actually endured combat.
	www.comparebookprices.ca /book_detail/0679640886 (1952 words)

	Doing Battle : The Making of a Skeptic (Paul Fussell) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Doing Battle is about honor and integrity, with Fussell having been lucky enough, or bright enough, to have had a series of teaching jobs that allowed his convictions and sense of honor and self to survive largely intact.
		Paul Fussell is one of the more ascerbic commentators on American life today.
		Fussell concentrates on his World War II experiences, when he was wounded both physically and emotionally.
	johnkeyes.com /a/0316290610-doing-battle.html (1437 words)

	Forum: Writers on War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Fussell led a rifle platoon in the 103rd Infantry Division and was severely wounded in France.
		I think another interesting aspect, and I think Paul and Jim can speak better to this, is the problem with writing about the truth in war as fact and the issues of censorship at the time as well.
		FUSSELL: I know quite a lot about it because I was in the midst of infantry units which, halfway through the war, had been decimated, and they'd been cut down to half their size.
	www.cs.umb.edu /~rwhealan/jfk/forum_writers_on_war.html (11090 words)

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