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Thank God for the atom bomb, and other essays /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fussell, Paul, 1924-2012
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Summit Books, [1988]
Table of Contents:
  • Thank God for the atom bomb
  • An exchange of views
  • Postscript (1987) on Japanese skulls
  • Writing in wartime
  • George Orwell
  • "A power of facing unpleasant facts"
  • Killing, in verse and prose
  • A well-regulated militia
  • Travel, tourism, and "international understanding"
  • On the persistence of pastoral
  • Taking it all off in the Balkans
  • The fate of chivalry, and the assault upon mother
  • Modernism, adversary culture, and Edmund Blunden
  • Indy.