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1	Class: A Guide Through the American Status System more books like this by Paul Fussell add to wishlist This book describes the living-room artifacts, clothing styles, and intellectual proclivities of American classes from top to bottom. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.96! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War more books like this by Paul Fussell add to wishlist World War II has been romanticized almost beyond recognition by "the sentimental, the loony patriotic, the ignorant, and the bloodthirsty". In this study, Paul Fussell goes behind the familiar diplomacy and heroics of history to examine the blunders, petty tyrannies, inconveniences, and deprivations that are many British and American people's ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.98! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Great War and Modern Memory more books like this by Paul Fussell add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.92! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Doing Battle: The Making of a Skeptic more books like this by Paul Fussell add to wishlist Paul Fussell recalls his experience as a young man in the infantry during the Second World War. The war changed Fussell's life irrevocably, and he contrasts his boyhood and youth in Pasadena, California with his time in the Army. While he was recovering from combat wounds, Fussell vowed never to take orders again, and in his recollections of his ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Poetic Meter and Poetic Form more books like this by Paul Fussell add to wishlist The title of this book may suggest that it is designed as a latter-day Gradus ad Parnassum to teach aspiring writers to produce passable verses. It is not. It is intended to help aspiring readers deepen their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal properties of poetry and thus heighten their pleasure and illumination as an appropriately skilled ... see all copies from $9.23! new only from $30.25! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	The Boys' Crusade: The American Infantry in Northwestern Europe, 1944-1945 more books like this by Paul Fussell add to wishlist A New York Times Notable Book for 2003. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.00! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Bad Or, the Dumbing of America more books like this by Paul Fussell add to wishlist The author of Class has created a satirical reference work that excoriates those things in modern life that are promoted as simply wonderful but are, in fact, BAD. Paul Fussell writes that we are living "in a moment teeming with raucously overvalued emptiness and trash". BAD is devoted to identifying examples of the phony or witless that public ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.87! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Uniforms: Why We Are What We Wear more books like this by Paul Fussell add to wishlist Cultural historian Paul Fussell turns his attention to uniforms of all kinds--military, ecclesiastical, medical, athletic, and many more--and analyzes their symbolism, their purpose, and the role they play in society. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.76! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Abroad: British Literary Traveling Between the Wars more books like this by Paul Fussell add to wishlist A book about the meaning of travel, about how important the topic has been for writers for two and a half centuries, and about how excellent the literature of travel happened to be in England and America in the 1920s and 30s. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $19.93! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Norton Book of Modern War more books like this by Paul Fussell (Editor) add to wishlist Here are moments on the battlefields of this century captured in the words of writers who faced wars in their newest and most brutal permutation. Divided into the First World War, the Wars in Asia, and includes prose and poetry from litery figures such as Rupert Brooke, Ernest Hemingway, and James Jones. see all copies from $3.45! new only from $16.15! \| first editions
11	Thank God for the Atom Bomb, and Other Essays more books like this by Paul Fussell add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $28.62! \| first editions \| SVS
12	Class more books like this by Paul Fussell add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $99.93! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	The Boys' Crusade. American G.I. S in Europe: Chaos and Fear in World War Two by Paul Fussell add to wishlist This book is a brilliant antidote to the military romanticism of SAVING PRIVATE RYAN or BAND OF BROTHERS. Part memoir, part history, it presents a series of episodes from the arrival of American troops in Britain through to the discovery of the concentration camps in early 1945. The experience of these young (often very young) soldiers was not ... see all copies from $4.95! new only from $11.99! \| first editions
14 view cover	The Boys' Crusade: American G.I. S in Europe: Chaos and Fear in World War Two by Paul Fussell add to wishlist This book is a brilliant antidote to the military romanticism of SAVING PRIVATE RYAN or BAND OF BROTHERS. Part memoir, part history, it presents a series of episodes from the arrival of American troops in Britain through to the discovery of the concentration camps in early 1945. The experience of these young (often very young) soldiers was not ... see all copies from $2.53! new only from $9.18!
15 view cover	The Norton Book of Travel more books like this by Paul Fussell (Editor) add to wishlist Editor Paul Fussell has brought together some of the best travel writing of all time from the world's most recognized travelers--Marco Polo, Darwin and Kerouac to name a few--and has explored the traveler's psyche from the Age of Discovery to the Age of Mass Tourism. see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Eighteenth Century English Literature more books like this by Geoffrey Tillotson (Editor), Professor Marshall Waingrow (Editor), Paul Fussell (Editor) add to wishlist A survey of prose, poetry, and drama from the Restoration to the beginning of the nineteenth century. Treats major authors in depth but also includes lesser but important writers to give a completer picture of the century. see all copies from $1.99! first editions
17 view cover	The Anti-Egotist: Kingsley Amis, Man of Letters more books like this by Paul Fussell add to wishlist Part biography, part critical appraisal, "The Anti-Egotist" aims to capture the essence of Kingsley Amis as a man of letters. Paul Fussell traces the influences that have shaped Amis's writing, ranging from his schooldays through military service to university teaching, as he emerged as a novelist, poet, and essayist. Revealing the profound moral ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.25! \| first editions
18 view cover	Wartime more books like this by Paul Fussell add to wishlist The Second World War has been romanticized almost beyond recognition by "the sentimental, the loony patriotic, the ignorant, and the bloodthirsty". In this study, Paul Fussell goes behind the familiar diplomacy and heroics of history to examine the blunders, petty tyrannies, inconveniences, and deprivations that are many British and American ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.50! \| first editions
19 view cover	The Great War and Modern Memory: Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition more books like this by Paul Fussell add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $19.00! new only from $50.49! \| SVS
20 view cover	Thank God for the Atom Bomb more books like this by Paul Fussell add to wishlist see all copies from $2.65! new only from $42.70!
21 view cover	Samuel Johnson and the life of writing more books like this by Paul Fussell add to wishlist see all copies from $2.78! new only from $16.04! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22	The Boy Scout Handbook and Other Observations more books like this by Paul Fussell add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $196.91! \| signed copies \| first editions
23	The rhetorical world of Augustan humanism : ethics and imagery from Swift to Burke more books like this by Paul Fussell add to wishlist see all copies from $6.95! first editions \| SVS
24	Sassoon's long journey more books like this by Siegfried Sassoon, Paul Fussell add to wishlist see all copies from $3.93! first editions
25	Siegried Sassoon's Long Journey: Selections from the Sherston Memoirs more books like this by Paul Fussell (Editor), Siegfried Sassoon add to wishlist see all copies from $3.88! first editions \| SVS

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