Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War, by Paul Fussell This book is about the psychological and emotional culture of Americans and Britons during the Second World War.  It is about the rationalizations and euphemisms people needed to deal with an unacceptable actuality from 1939 to 1945. So begins Fussell in the preface.  After touching on the physical damage, he continues: Less obvious is the damage it did to intellect, discrimination, honesty, individuality, complexity, ambiguity, and irony. In chapter 8 of Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace, edited By Harry Elmer Barnes, William Henry Chamberlin addresses this topic.  Chamberlin … Continue reading