Paul Fussell

[Bekah]

Thanks,  Rich -  

Paul Fussell: 

< "Every war is ironic because every war is worse than expected. Every war constitutes an irony of situation because its means are so melodramatically disproportionate to its presumed ends," Fussell wrote in "The Great War," his study of World War I that ranked No. 75 on the Modern Library's list of the greatest nonfiction books of the 20th century .>

From  The Great War and Modern Memory and  as found in his obit from the Boston Globe at: 
http://www.boston.com/ae/celebrity/articles/2012/05/24/literary_scholar_paul_fussell_dead_at_88/

Bek

On May 24, 2012, at 7:14 AM, rich wrote:

> Paul Fussell died this week
> 
> the great war and modern memory--yes, we love that book here
> 
> "By the end of the day both sides had seen, in a sad scrawl of broken
> earth and murdered men, the answer to the question. No road. No
> thoroughfare. Neither race had won, nor could win, the war. The War
> had won, and would go on winning."
> 
> rich