Presents a series of anecdotes that tell the history and meaning of American uniforms, identifying their cultural significance in terms of how uniforms unite and divide people ...

An incisive, unsentimental account of the emotional and psychological atmosphere of World War II and the war's effect on the literary world.

Selections from poetry and fiction describe the 20th century's major conflicts.

A book about the meaning of travel, about how important the topic has been for writers for two and a half centuries, and about how excellent the literature of travel happened ...

A survey of prose, poetry, and drama from the Restoration to the beginning of the nineteenth century. Treats major authors in depth but also includes lesser but important ...

Author focuses on the death of American sensibility and taste and how Americans are timid in relying on their own tastes and instinct.

"The first book of real magnitude to come out of the last war." —John Dos Passos John Horne Burns brought The Gallery back from World War II, and on publication in 1947 it ...

This book describes the living-room artifacts, clothing styles, and intellectual proclivities of American classes from top to bottom.

The Boys’ Crusade is the great historian Paul Fussell’s unflinching and unforgettable account of the American infantryman’s experiences in Europe during World War II. Based in ...