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开 本: 32开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 平装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9780812974881
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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.
From the Hardcover edition.
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.
From the Hardcover edition.
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