Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1996. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [10], 310 pages. Illustrations. Index. Black mark on bottom edge. Includes To the Reader; Acknowledgments. This is a memoir by the author of The Great War and Modern Memory, winner of the National Book Award. Fussell writes about an idyllic boyhood shattered by World War II-and the way the war experience changed his perspective on everything that came before and after. His life began in Pasadena, California, a pastoral middle-class sanctuary almost untouched by the Great Depression. He went as an innocent to nearby Pomona College, where he learned about drinking and women, and spent afternoons marching on the football field with the ROTC. And then, when the United States entered World War II, the spell was broken. At nineteen he joined the army and began the central event of his life. He endured basic training, became a second lieutenant in the infantry, and, leading his platoon into battle, was seriously wounded. When he recovered, he vowed never to take orders again. His newly subversive sensibility would color all his later years, as a Harvard Ph.D. student, as a professor of literature, and as one of America's most distinguished commentators on twentieth-century life. After the war, Paul Fussell pursued a career as a literary scholar and critic, writing and editing many books on eighteenth-century British literature, poetic technique, travel writing, and military culture, together with two volumes of social and cultural criticism. More

New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. First Printing. Hardcover. 24 cm, 330 pages. Illus., notes, index. Signed by the author. More

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1990. First Edition. First Printing. 830, index, some edge soiling, minor wear and soiling to DJ. More