Book · 1975 · Nonfiction

The Great War and Modern Memory

Oxford University Press · 431 pages
★ 6.3 editorial score

The trenches taught the century to speak in irony, Fussell argues, reading Sassoon, Graves, and Owen against the language they inherited. Historians have argued with him for fifty years inside his frame.

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1975Depicts World War IDepicts 1910s