Word: fussell
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What began after one war ended with another. Travel writers were gradually; displaced by foreign correspondents, exotica gave way to political realities. Fussel likes to sound crotchety about the inferior modern substitute for travel, but he knows it is too late to deny people Disneyland or twelve nights and 13 days of prepackaged; fun. His book is a fitting substitute for the real thing; it is a journey in time and space, offering the serendipitous pleasures of the open road...
...Paul Fussel's The Great War starts with the same inevitable conclusions derived from yesterday's war and post-war dispatches: war is always with us, it leaves an indelible impression on our memories, shaping and illuminating our lives and our culture. But Fussell only begins with the kind of half-shaped ideas we get from these recent dispatches. His book deals with World War I and its accretions in the collective memory of the English-speaking world over the past half century. His "memory" is not, say, our individual memories of Vietnam, but a more permanent kind of remembrance...
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