The Great War and Modern Memory

The year 2000 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of The Great War and Modern Memory, winner of the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and recently named by the Modern Library one of the twentieth century's 100 Best Non-Fiction Books. Fussell's landmark study of WWI remains as original and gripping today as ever before: a literate, literary, and illuminating account of the Great War, the one that changed a generation, ushered in the modern era, and revolutionized how we see the world. Exploring the work of Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, Edmund Blunden, David Jones, Isaac Rosenberg, and Wilfred Owen, Fussell supplies contexts, both actual and literary, for those writers who most effectively memorialized WWI as an historical experience with conspicuous imaginative and artistic meaning.

For this special edition, the author has prepared a new afterword and a suggested further reading list. As this classic work draws upon several disciplines--among them literary studies, military history, cultural criticism, and historical inquiry--it will continue to appeal to students, scholars, and general readers of various backgrounds.

• Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography
• The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry (Penguin Classics)
• Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War
• Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War In European Cultural History (Canto Classics)
• Testament of Youth (Penguin Classics)
• The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
• World War One British Poets: Brooke, Owen, Sassoon, Rosenberg and Others (Unabridged)
• Class: A Guide Through the American Status System
• The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme
• The First World War