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Wartime
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Author : Paul Fussell
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1990-10-25
Wartime written by Paul Fussell and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-10-25 with History categories.
Winner of both the National Book Award for Arts and Letters and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, Paul Fussell's The Great War and Modern Memory was one of the most original and gripping volumes ever written about the First World War. Frank Kermode, in The New York Times Book Review, hailed it as "an important contribution to our understanding of how we came to make World War I part of our minds," and Lionel Trilling called it simply "one of the most deeply moving books I have read in a long time." In its panaramic scope and poetic intensity, it illuminated a war that changed a generation and revolutionized the way we see the world. Now, in Wartime, Fussell turns to the Second World War, the conflict he himself fought in, to weave a narrative that is both more intensely personal and more wide-ranging. Whereas his former book focused primarily on literary figures, on the image of the Great War in literature, here Fussell examines the immediate impact of the war on common soldiers and civilians. He describes the psychological and emotional atmosphere of World War II. He analyzes the euphemisms people needed to deal with unacceptable reality (the early belief, for instance, that the war could be won by "precision bombing," that is, by long distance); he describes the abnormally intense frustration of desire and some of the means by which desire was satisfied; and, most important, he emphasizes the damage the war did to intellect, discrimination, honesty, individuality, complexity, ambiguity and wit. Of course, no Fussell book would be complete without some serious discussion of the literature of the time. He examines, for instance, how the great privations of wartime (when oranges would be raffled off as valued prizes) resulted in roccoco prose styles that dwelt longingly on lavish dinners, and how the "high-mindedness" of the era and the almost pathological need to "accentuate the positive" led to the downfall of the acerbic H.L. Mencken and the ascent of E.B. White. He also offers astute commentary on Edmund Wilson's argument with Archibald MacLeish, Cyril Connolly's Horizon magazine, the war poetry of Randall Jarrell and Louis Simpson, and many other aspects of the wartime literary world. Fussell conveys the essence of that wartime as no other writer before him. For the past fifty years, the Allied War has been sanitized and romanticized almost beyond recognition by "the sentimental, the loony patriotic, the ignorant, and the bloodthirsty." Americans, he says, have never understood what the Second World War was really like. In this stunning volume, he offers such an understanding.
Wartime Women
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Author : Karen Anderson
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 1981-04-29
Wartime Women written by Karen Anderson and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981-04-29 with Social Science categories.
artime Women examines in detail the short-term changes of the war years; the jobs in war plants and support services; the effects of women's earnings on family finances; the response of trade unions. Anderson shows that the seeds of the postwar denial of women's equal participation were present in the ambivalence of wartime attitudes. Crammed with information perceptively interpreted.
Wartime Kitchen
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Author : Hong Suen Wong
language : en
Publisher: Editions Didier Millet
Release Date : 2009
Wartime Kitchen written by Hong Suen Wong and has been published by Editions Didier Millet this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Cooking categories.
Wartime Kitchen: Food And Eating In Singapore (1942-1950) Captures The Resilience And Adaptability Of A People Faced With Limited Resources And Shortages During The Japanese Occupation And In Post-War Singapore, Never Before Examined In Detail.
War At A Distance
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Author : Mary A. Favret
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2009-10-19
War At A Distance written by Mary A. Favret and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-19 with Literary Criticism categories.
What does it mean to live during wartime away from the battle zone? What is it like for citizens to go about daily routines while their country sends soldiers to kill and be killed across the globe? Timely and thought-provoking, War at a Distance considers how those left on the home front register wars and wartime in their everyday lives, particularly when military conflict remains removed from immediate perception, available only through media forms. Looking back over two centuries, Mary Favret locates the origins of modern wartime in the Napoleonic era and describes how global military operations affected the British populace, as the nation's army and navy waged battles far from home for decades. She reveals that the literature and art produced in Britain during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries obsessively cultivated means for feeling as much as understanding such wars, and established forms still relevant today. Favret examines wartime literature and art as varied as meditations on the Iliad, the history of meteorology, landscape painting in India, and popular poetry in newspapers and periodicals; she locates the embedded sense of war and dislocation in works ranging from Austen, Coleridge, and Wordsworth to Woolf, Stevens, and Sebald; and she contemplates how literature provides the public with methods for responding to violent calamities happening elsewhere. Bringing to light Romanticism's legacy in reflections on modern warfare, this book shows that war's absent presence affects home in deep and irrevocable ways.
In Wartime
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Author : Tim Judah
language : en
Publisher: Tim Duggan Books
Release Date : 2016-10-11
In Wartime written by Tim Judah and has been published by Tim Duggan Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-11 with History categories.
From one of the finest journalists of our time comes a definitive, boots-on-the-ground dispatch from the front lines of the conflict in Ukraine. “Essential for anyone who wants to understand events in Ukraine and what they portend for the West.”—The Wall Street Journal Ever since Ukraine’s violent 2014 revolution, followed by Russia’s annexation of Crimea, the country has been at war. Misinformation reigns, more than two million people have been displaced, and Ukrainians fight one another on a second front—the crucial war against corruption. With In Wartime, Tim Judah lays bare the events that have turned neighbors against one another and mired Europe’s second-largest country in a conflict seemingly without end. In Lviv, Ukraine’s western cultural capital, mothers tend the graves of sons killed on the other side of the country. On the Maidan, the square where the protests that deposed President Yanukovych began, pamphleteers, recruiters, buskers, and mascots compete for attention. In Donetsk, civilians who cheered Russia’s President Vladimir Putin find their hopes crushed as they realize they have been trapped in the twilight zone of a frozen conflict. Judah talks to everyone from politicians to poets, pensioners, and historians. Listening to their clashing explanations, he interweaves their stories to create a sweeping, tragic portrait of a country fighting a war of independence from Russia—twenty-five years after the collapse of the USSR.
Politics And Culture In Wartime Japan
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Author : Ben-Ami Shillony
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1991
Politics And Culture In Wartime Japan written by Ben-Ami Shillony and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Japan categories.
This analysis of the politics and culture of Japan during the period of World War II argues that the wartime regime, repressive as it was, was very different from contemporary totalitarian states.
War Time
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Author : Mary L. Dudziak
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2013-09-19
War Time written by Mary L. Dudziak and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-19 with History categories.
Mary Dudziak's original analysis of American wartime and its effect on law, policy, and our ideas about time itself, now available in paperback.
Wartime North Africa
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Author : Aomar Boum
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2022-07-05
Wartime North Africa written by Aomar Boum and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-05 with History categories.
This book, the first-ever collection of primary documents on North African history and the Holocaust, gives voice to the diversity of those involved—Muslims, Christians, and Jews; women, men, and children; black, brown, and white; the unknown and the notable; locals, refugees, the displaced, and the interned; soldiers, officers, bureaucrats, volunteer fighters, and the forcibly recruited. At times their calls are lofty, full of spiritual lamentation and political outrage. At others, they are humble, yearning for medicine, a cigarette, or a pair of shoes. Translated from French, Arabic, North African Judeo-Arabic, Spanish, Hebrew, Moroccan Darija, Tamazight (Berber), Italian, and Yiddish, or transcribed from their original English, these writings shed light on how war, occupation, race laws, internment, and Vichy French, Italian fascist, and German Nazi rule were experienced day by day across North Africa. Though some selections are drawn from published books, including memoirs, diaries, and collections of poetry, most have never been published before, nor previously translated into English. These human experiences, combined, make up the history of wartime North Africa.
The Art Of Living In Wartime
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1943
The Art Of Living In Wartime written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1943 with categories.
Culture And Entertainment In Wartime Russia
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Author : Richard Stites
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Culture And Entertainment In Wartime Russia written by Richard Stites and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with History categories.
Surveys Russia's wartime culture as expressed in film, theater, music, propaganda, the press, and national myth.