The Boys Crusade, Paul Fussell
The Boys Crusade, Paul Fussell
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The Boys' Crusade
The American Infantry in Northwestern Europe, 1944-1945

Author: Paul Fussell

Narrator: Joel Leffert

Unabridged: 4 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 01/16/2008


Synopsis

National Book Award Winner Paul Fussell tells the breathtaking story of WWII from the young soldiers' points of view. WWII was not the glorified picture it is often depicted to be. For the American soldier it was a tiring, emotional, and gruesome experience. Fussell's extensive details and insight help to make this story come alive.

About Paul Fussell

Paul Fussell (1924-2012) was an American cultural and literary historian and critic. He is the author of over twenty works and winner of the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jamie on July 30, 2019

In the American Civil War there was a shorthand phrase for having been in combat, “seeing the elephant.” Like an elephant, being under fire and seeing death and destruction all around was completely different from anything previously experienced, or even imagined. Paul Fussell saw the elephant, expe......more

Goodreads review by Brendan on November 01, 2016

In his opening pages, Fussell recalls the famed Children's Crusade of the early 13th century, when 50,000 young people may or may not have marched into the Holy Land in an attempt to free it of Islam. It was an adventure that strikes modern sensibilities as nothing if not appalling. He then points to......more

Goodreads review by Jonfaith on April 21, 2014

This was a present for my father which I subsequently took out in the backyard on a subsequent visit to read while avoiding him. This is a sad and ongoing condition. The book is also disturbing, a sage counterpoint to the warmongering shit of Stephen Ambrose. Fussell's work puts myths to rest and rem......more