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Carregando... The Boys' Crusade: The American Infantry in Northwestern Europe, 1944–1945 (2003)de Paul Fussell
   Nenhum(a) Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro.  MacDad | Mar 27, 2020 |   The book is also disturbing, a sage counterpoint to the warmongering shit of Stephen Ambrose. Fussell's work puts myths to rest and reminds us of the horrific. (  ) jonfaith | Feb 22, 2019 |  ) nmele | Sep 11, 2015 |  ) drbubbles | Nov 21, 2010 |
 Paul Fussell's short powerful book of linked essays about ground fighting in the European theater of World War II should be mandatory reading for future military leaders at West Point. The unbearable fear, systemic screw-ups and mangled corpses that are the daily ration of any infantry combat soldier are so vividly and personally drawn that it might give pause to any glory-lovers among the cadets who dream of conquest without blood... Fussell still suffers lingering survivor guilt laced with an ordinary rifleman's rage -- not at the Germans but first and foremost at his officers; the U.S. government propagandists; the furiously unwelcoming French who resented being slaughtered by deliberately imprecise Allied bombing raids, and any form of patriotic coercion. In "The Boys' Crusade" he has given us the most eloquent meditation on war I have read since the World War I poets Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves and Edmund Blunden. Pertence à série publicadaPrêmios
The Boys' Crusade is the great historian Paul Fussell's unflinching and unforgettable account of the American infantryman's experiences in Europe during World War II. Based in part on the author's own experiences, it provides a stirring narrative of what the war was actually like, from the point of view of the children--for children they were--who fought it. While dealing definitively with issues of strategy, leadership, context, and tactics, Fussell has an additional purpose: to tear away the veil of feel-good mythology that so often obscures and sanitizes war's brutal essence. "A chronicle should deal with nothing but the truth," Fussell writes in his Preface. Accord-ingly, he eschews every kind of sentimentalism, focusing instead on the raw action and human emotion triggered by the intimacy, horror, and intense sorrows of war, and honestly addressing the errors, waste, fear, misery, and resentments that plagued both sides. In the vast literature on World War II, The Boys' Crusade stands wholly apart. Fussell's profoundly honest portrayal of these boy soldiers underscores their bravery even as it deepens our awareness of their experiences. This book is both a tribute to their noble service and a valuable lesson for future generations. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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 Google Books — Carregando...GênerosClassificação decimal de Dewey (CDD)940.54History and Geography Europe Europe 1918- Military History Of World War IIClassificação da Biblioteca do Congresso dos E.U.A. (LCC)AvaliaçãoMédia: (3.79)
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This is not to say that this book isn’t worth reading – quite the contrary. Throughout this book, Fussell dispels much of the “greatest generation” mythology cultivated in recent years by writers such as Stephen Ambrose. A veteran of the war, Fussell provides a much more complicated portrait of inexperienced young boys thrown into the chaos and violence of combat. In a series of short chapters, he covers topics ranging from the interactions with the French to the treatment of the wounded and the dead to the discovery of the work camps – all of which he addresses with the same blunt and insightful analysis that is a hallmark of his work. Anyone seeking to get a more accurate portrait of what the “good war” was really like for the men who fought in it would do well to start here. (