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A New York Times Notable Book of the Year 2003Award-winning historian Fussell offers an unflinching account of what World War II in Europe 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.Fussell, Paul is the author of 'Boys' Crusade The American Infantry in Northwestern Europe, 1944-1945', published 2004 under ISBN 9780786264261 and ISBN 0786264268.
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