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[[File:wartime.jpg|thumbnail|300px|left|''[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0195065778/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0195065778&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=110dec88927e9be921a6b64954a25636 Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War]'' by Paul Fussell]]

In ''[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0195065778/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0195065778&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=110dec88927e9be921a6b64954a25636 Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War],'' Paul Fussell, through neatly developed prose, debunks homespun myths and provides the reader with a glimpse into the realities of a combatant’s existence during World War II. As a twenty year old lieutenant who led a rifle company in France from 1943 until he was wounded in 1945, Fussell speaks from experience, thereby giving his voice an air of authority to convey the barbaric reality of war. This classic work supports the position that the public at large will have one concept of war while the soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines engaged will have the truth. Fussell emphasizes this and immediately makes his aim clear in the preface: “For the past fifty years the Allied war has been sanitized and romanticized almost beyond recognition by the sentimental, the loony patriotic, the ignorant, and the bloodthirsty. I have tried to balance the scales.”<ref>Paul Fussell, ''[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0195065778/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0195065778&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=110dec88927e9be921a6b64954a25636 Wartime],''(New York: Oxford University Press, 1989), ix.</ref>