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Title: Could better be titles "making of a curmudgeon"
Review: Paul Fussell has already written two excellent books debunking the myths, selling, and romanticizing of war. This book presumably is anaccount of Fussell's experience in war (really the Army), which is good - but only about a third of the book - and how it made the man. Behind the "chicken-shit" does Fussell really think the war ought not to have been fought or that there was a nice way of fighting it - the whole history of war suggests not. And for those who have read his earlier books it is an unrevealing account of Fussell the person. For example he barely mentions his son - who's crazy experience as a bodybuilder were the material of the son's own book and must have touched the father is some way. His first wife appears to have had a career as a writer on food; she passes in barely a couple of pages. How much more of Fussell the person is hidden?
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