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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 940.541273
EAN: 9780812974881
ISBN: 0812974883
Label: Modern Library
Manufacturer: Modern Library
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 208
Publication Date: September 13, 2005
Publisher: Modern Library
Release Date: September 13, 2005
Sales Rank: 81396
Studio: Modern Library
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Product Description:
The Boys’ Crusade is the great historian Paul Fussell’s unflinching and unforgettable account of the American infantryman’s experiences in Europe during World War II. Based in part on the author’s own experiences, it provides a stirring narrative of what the war was actually like, from the point of view of the children—for children they were—who fought it. While dealing definitively with issues of strategy, leadership, context, and tactics, Fussell has an additional purpose: to tear away the veil of feel-good mythology that so often obscures and sanitizes war’s brutal essence.
“A chronicle should deal with nothing but the truth,” Fussell writes in his Preface. Accord-ingly, he eschews every kind of sentimentalism, focusing instead on the raw action and human emotion triggered by the intimacy, horror, and intense sorrows of war, and honestly addressing the errors, waste, fear, misery, and resentments that plagued both sides. In the vast literature on World War II, The Boys’ Crusade stands wholly apart. Fussell’s profoundly honest portrayal of these boy soldiers underscores their bravery even as it deepens our awareness of their experiences. This book is both a tribute to their noble service and a valuable lesson for future generations.
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Rating:  - Not Fussell's Best
Paul Fussell served in the US Army infantry in Europe during World War Two. It was the defining event of his life. His war-related writings unrelentingly attempt to de-romanticize warfare in general and infantry service in particular by bluntly portraying the horrors of modern battle.
The Boys' Crusade is a thin volume of short chapters covering familiar ground. There's not much new here. The discussion of the COBRA affair highlights the book's small strengths and major weakness. COBRA ... Read More
Rating:  - No illusions
This little book reflects the reality of infantry life better than 99% of military histories.
Rating: - 1944
Fussell is a very good writer, but I agree with many of the previous reviews here: it's a small book that rehashes a lot of more complete histories.I also found much of it very much in the vain of the revisionist, left wing criticisms of many of our actions during the Second World War, which, of course, is the current vogue.
War is hell.I've never experienced it, but it is very much a given that it is a terrible, terrible thing.Nonetheless, we had to do what we had to do over in ... Read More
Rating:  - Sour Old Man
Now that the author is old and feels the shadows lengthening he has apparently decided to take refuge in venting his spleen against his younger stronger self.His last two books have sought to make a mockery of the young men who won WWII.He wrote a very good book "Thank God For The Atom Bomb" and an OK book on WWI and its effect on Western memory.This book is dull and in reality little more than a short story fit for Harpers or The Nation.Basically we won the war on the backs of 15 years olds ... Read More
Rating: - Horrible Book
This "book" is poorly researched, shows a marked prejudice on the part of the author and presents nothing new to the reader.It is a disjointed attempt to portray war as a horrible experience--no kidding.I am sorry I bought it and would hope others do not make the same mistake.
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