Paul Fussell

[malignd at aol.com]

What I remember most from The Great War and Modern Memory was the description of Passchendaele -- the third battle of Ypres -- was the staggering number of dead, hundreds of thousands, and the large percentage of that number who died by drowning in mud.



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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

 
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