More than a few people are surfing in looking for info, so here are a few things about Ken Burns’ The War from youtube.
The trailer…which includes a bit from Paul Fussell, veteran and noted writer highlighted on these pages.
An interview… from Ken Burns that aired on PBS…
My previous two entries here highlighted some of the [...]
I got to thinking about a passage I read in Fussell’s Wartime (I keep going back to that, I know, but it’s a great read) about public discourse (or what people could/would actually say in the 1940s regarding the actualities of conflict). Much of F’s argument has to do with light v. heavy duty, [...]
Way back in the day, I read The Great War and Modern Memory. That was grad school in a class called Continental European literature. We read a wide variety of texts there, but Fussell’s stood head and shoulders above all others. Much later, I came to Fussell’s other works, notably Wartime and [...]