• Introduction


• A Satire of Circumstance


• The Troglodyte World


• Adversary Proceedings


• Myth, Ritual, and Romance


• Oh What a Literary War


• Theater of War


• Arcadian Recourses


• Soldier Boys


• Persistence and Memory


• Afterword

Paul Fussell was an American cultural and literary historian and critic. He is the author of over 20 works and winner of the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award.

A new edition of Paul Fussell's literate, literary, and illuminating account of the Great War, now a classic text of literary and cultural criticism.