The boys' crusade : the American infantry in northwestern Europe, 1944-1945 (Modern Library chronicles 14)
Series
Physical Description: |
xv, 184 p. ; 20 cm. |
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Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-176) and index. |
ISBN: |
0679640886 |
Author Notes: |
In 1975, he published The Great War and Modern Memory, which was a study of World War I and how its horrors fostered a disillusioned modernist sensibility. This book won both the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism and the National Book Award for Arts and Letters. His other works include Abroad: British Literary Traveling Between the Wars, Class: A Guide Through the American Status System, Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War, BAD: Or, the Dumbing of America, and Doing Battle: The Making of a Skeptic. He died of natural causes on May 23, 2012 at the age of 88. (Bowker Author Biography) |