The Great War and Modern Memory

s The Great War and Modern Memory.It is a book which First World War literary scholars and historians return to obsessively, with a mixture of admiration and irritation.The admiration is for the way in which Fussell pioneered thinking about the war in terms of its impact on cultural history, rather than in terms of its military or geopolitical significance; his attention to literary detail; and the emotional intensity of his argument, both moving and sobering.The irritation flows from his narrow interpretation of the conflict; his sub-Northrop Fryean mode of literary analysis