The Great War and modern memory
Literature
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Summary
Fussell, a professor of English literature and winner of the 1976 National Book Award for Arts and Letters, explores how historical events and society's record of those events interact. He looks at the British experience during World War I through… the eyes of the writers Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, and Edmund Blunden; through the poetry of David Jones, Isaac Rosenberg, and Wilfred Owen; and through amateur memoirs of the men in the trenches