Title: Fussell goes to war himself and does not approve.
Review: I had read Fussell's The Great War prior to reading this one, and found chunks of it of real interest. I then read Wartime and found it unhappily stupid, except around the fringes. That we sided with Joe Stalin was one of those historical entanglements that are an obscene adjunct of the obscenity of war, but that we reacted to Hitler's unspeakable atrocities was not an obscenity but a necessity. Fussell had to serve in the war and did not like it, and who would blame him for that? But he spreads his dissatisfactions all around, with no apparent real sense of the times he lived in, and he does dishonor to any of the members of that war by his book. Of course he has every right to have written it; that's part of what was at stake in those battles.
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