Paul Fussell’s Wartime

  1. What does Fussell’s book reveal about being an individual in a mass army? What pressures to conform did servicemen feel? How much control did they have over their lives? In what ways did they cope and/or rebel? 2. What are some of the major differences between the way the war was experienced and the way the war was portrayed in, film, advertising, etc? 3. Mass mobilization and the war created new experiences that had an impact on the English language. What were some of the ways that the war impacted language and literature in the English-speaking countries? What new words and phrases came into the English language? https://www.ebooks.com/en-us/book/679336/wartime/paul-fussell/