abstract:The Great War and Modern Memory is a book of literary criticism written by Paul Fussell and published in 1975 by Oxford University Press. It describes the literary responses by English participants in World War I to their experiences of combat, particularly in trench warfare.
"It reversed the Idea of Progress, " writes the literary historian Paul Fussell in "The GreatWarandModernMemory, " the single best account of the war's cultural impact.