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Larger Image » Add book review » Tag this book(What's this?)	Doing Battle: The Making of a Skeptic By: Paul Fussell ISBN-10: 0316297178 ISBN-13: 9780316297172 Publisher: Little Brown & Co (T) - 1996-10 Hardcover \| 1st ed Edition \| 310 Pages \| List Price: $24.95 (USD) \| Sales Rank: 642083 Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.3 x 0.8 inches Similar Titles All Editions Customer Reviews More details from or

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For most, World War II is nothing but a chapter in history--for most Americans, a rosy and happy one. But Paul Fussell, a novelist and WWII veteran, reminds us that only those who've experienced it can truly understand that war is hell. He writes with bite and humor of the horrors and inequalities of the so-called "Good War," which he says "for the United States, [was] an unintended form of eugenics, clearing the population of the dumbest, the least skilled, the least promising of all Americans." Not exactly the thoughts of a sentimentalist, but the notion that war is horrible should be eternally reinforced, and Fussell does so with a fury and skill few writers can muster.

For most, World War II is nothing but a chapter in history--for most Americans, a rosy and happy one. But Paul Fussell, a novelist and WWII veteran, reminds us that only those who've experienced it can truly understand that war is hell. He writes with bite and humor of the horrors and inequalities of the so-called "Good War," which he says "for the United States, [was] an unintended form of eugenics, clearing the population of the dumbest, the least skilled, the least promising of all Americans." Not exactly the thoughts of a sentimentalist, but the notion that war is horrible should be eternally reinforced, and Fussell does so with a fury and skill few writers can muster.

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