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1924–2012 United States
Paul Fussell (22 March 1924 - 23 May 2012) was an American cultural and literary historian, professor emeritus of the University of Pennsylvania, and author of books on eighteenth-century English literature, World War I, World War II, and social class.
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To those on both sides who suffered.
The Boys' Crusade (2003)
Irony is a great help in helping to penetrate fraudulent language.
Humanities interview (1996)
One of my favorite quotes is from Hemingway, who said, "Never persuade yourself that war, no matter how necessary, is not a crime." … It is. Sometimes it's necessary, but it's always awful, and that's my point.
Humanities interview (1996)
I was very interested in the Great War, as it was called then, because it was the initial twentieth-century shock to European culture.
Humanities interview (1996)
War is about survival and it's about mass killing and it's about killing or being killed — that is, in the infantry — and it is extremely unpleasant.
Humanities interview (1996)
As a former soldier, what struck me is the absolutely heartless way that war was being pursued by the Americans, partly I think because of the race problem.
Humanities interview (1996)
"Those who fought know a secret about themselves, and it is not very nice." … They have experienced secretly and privately their natural human impulse toward sadism and brutality.
Humanities interview (1996)
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