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3 unusual facts about Paul Fussell


British women's literature of World War I

According to Paul Fussell, many soldiers relied on poetry as a method to cope with the atrocities and horrors of the First World War.

Isaac Rosenberg

In The Great War and Modern Memory, Paul Fussell's landmark study of the literature of the First World War, Fussell identifies Rosenberg's "Break of Day in the Trenches" as "the greatest poem of the war."

Paul Fussell

Fussell was one of several veterans interviewed in the Ken Burns and Lynn Novick documentary The War in 2007, and in the 1999 ABC-produced documentary The Century: America's Time.


Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience

The film also consists of commentaries and interviews with literary authors such as Tobias Wolff, Tim O'Brien, Anthony Swofford, Paul Fussell and James Salter.


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