Recebeu o National Book Award em 1976, pela publicação de The Great War and Modern Memory. Na obra, Fussell argumenta que a experiência das trincheiras minou as concepções românticas prevalecentes sobre a guerra, substituindo-as por uma visão mais realista e sombria dos horrores do conflito.[2]
Livros publicados
Poetic Meter and Poetic Form (1965)
The Rhetorical World of Augustan Humanism: Ethics and Imagery from Swift to Burke (1965)
Theory of Prosody in Eighteenth-Century England (1966)
Eighteenth-Century English Literature (1969) editor with Geoffrey Tillotson and Marshall Waingrow
Samuel Johnson and The Life of Writing (1971)
English Augustan Poetry (1972)
The Great War and Modern Memory (1975)
The Ordeal of Alfred M. Hale: The Memoirs of a Soldier Servant (1975) editor
Abroad: British Literary Travelling Between the Wars (1980)
The Boy Scout Handbook and Other Observations (1982)
Sassoon's Long Journey (1983) editor, from The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston
Class, A Guide Through the American Status System (1983)
Caste Marks: Style and Status in the USA (1984)
The Norton Book of Travel (1987) editor
Thank God for the Atom Bomb and Other Essays (1988)
Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War (1989)
BAD: or, The Dumbing of America (1991)
The Bloody Game: An Anthology of Modern War (1991)
The Norton Book of Modern War (1991) editor
The Anti-Egotist. Kingsley Amis: Man of Letters (1994)
Doing Battle - The Making of a Skeptic (1996) autobiography