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　　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

part on the author’s own experiences, it provides a stirring

narrative of what the war was actually like, from the point of view

of the children—for children they were—who fought it. While dealing

definitively with issues of strategy, leadership, context, and

tactics, Fussell has an additional purpose: to tear away the veil

of feel-good mythology that so often obscures and sanitizes war’s

brutal essence.

“A chronicle should deal with nothing but the truth,” Fussell

writes in his Preface. Accord-ingly, he eschews every kind of

sentimentalism, focusing instead on the raw action and human

emotion triggered by the intimacy, horror, and intense sorrows of

war, and honestly addressing the errors, waste, fear, misery, and

resentments that plagued both sides. In the vast literature on

World War II, The Boys’ Crusade stands wholly apart.

Fussell’s profoundly honest portrayal of these boy soldiers

underscores their bravery even as it deepens our awareness of their

experiences. This book is both a tribute to their noble service and

a valuable lesson for future generations.

From the Hardcover edition.

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　　Paul Fussell is the author of fifteen books,

including Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second

World War and The Great War and Modern Memory, which won

the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award

and was named by the Modern Library as one of the twentieth

century’s 100 best nonfiction books. He taught literature for many

years at the University of Pennsylvania and Rutgers University. He

lives in Philadelphia with his wife.

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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 part on the author’s own experiences, it provides a stirring narrative of what the war was actually like, from the point of view of the children—for children they were—who fought it. While dealing definitively with issues of strategy, leadership, context, and tactics, Fussell has an additional purpose: to tear away the veil of feel-good mythology that so often obscures and sanitizes war’s brutal essence.

“A chronicle should deal with nothing but the truth,” Fussell writes in his Preface. Accord-ingly, he eschews every kind of sentimentalism, focusing instead on the raw action and human emotion triggered by the intimacy, horror, and intense sorrows of war, and honestly addressing the errors, waste, fear, misery, and resentments that plagued both sides. In the vast literature on World War II, The Boys’ Crusade stands wholly apart. Fussell’s profoundly honest portrayal of these boy soldiers underscores their bravery even as it deepens our awareness of their experiences. This book is both a tribute to their noble service and a valuable lesson for future generations.

From the Hardcover edition.