On the C-SPAN Networks: Paul Fussell is a Professor Emeritus for the English Department in the University of Pennsylvania with nine videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1996 ...

Right from the start of this examination of the personal and cultural meanings of the wearing of uniforms, celebrated author Fussell (Class; The Great War and Modern ...

PORTLAND, Ore. -- Paul Fussell, an acclaimed literary scholar who won a National Book Award in 1976 for "The Great War and Modern Memory," died Wednesday morning at age 88. His stepson Cole Behringer ...

PAUL Fussell almost made it to Memorial Day, 2012. He died Wednesday in Medford, Ore., at 88. An American writer, Fussell served as a young infantryman in World War II and wrote of it in his books, ...

More than 20 years ago, Paul Fussell dedicated the book that made him an important literary figure in America to Sgt. Edward Keith Hudson, “Killed beside me in France.” It happened March 15, 1945. The ...

The experience of reading (and re-reading) Class is akin to wiping goggles one didn’t know were fogged. Fussell’s methodology settles into the brain like a virus; one soon cannot stop nanocategorizing ...

Penn professor and acclaimed historian Paul Fussell died on May 23 at age 88. A renowned scholar of World War I and II, Fussell joined Penn’s English department in 1983, and taught until his ...

“Doing Battle: The Making of a Skeptic,” by Paul Fussell. Little Brown. 310 pages. $24.95. Paul Fussell hates war and the political-military complex that attempts to give it meaning and purpose. He ...

A few years ago, the food writer Betty Fussell got a call from The New York Times obituaries department. The good news, she ...

IT WAS never clear to Paul Fussell just when his innocence was lost. It might have been that November night in 1944 when his rifle platoon took a wrong turn in a small wood in Alsace. He was 20. The ...

Fussell was best known for his magisterial The Great War and Modern Memory (1975), in which he explored how the British experience of the 1914-18 conflict had penetrated into the culture that came ...