Paul Fussell

The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

Lecture: The Poetry of Three Wars: World War I, World War II, and Vietnam.

From the NYPL Public Programs Brochure for Fall 1989:

Paul Fussell has written on such diverse subjects as Samuel Johnson, travel writing, and the American class structure. He is the holder of the Donald T. Regan Chair of English Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. His work The Great War and Modern Memory won the National Book and Critics Circle Awards. For his service in World War II he received two Purple Hearts and a Bronze Star. His study Wartime; Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War will be published by Oxford University Press in September.


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