Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare

Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare

Houghton, Frances (University of Manchester)

Cambridge University Press

01/2019

312

Dura

Inglês

9781108496919

15 a 20 dias

Reveals how veteran memoirs serve as rich repositories of information about the ways in which former servicemen remembered, understood, and recounted the Second World War, shedding new light on experiences of battle and the veteran's sense of wartime self, as well as the emotional meanings war memoirists attached to their narratives.
Introduction; 1. Motive and the veteran-memoirist; 2. Penning and publishing the veteran's tale; 3. Landscape, nature, and battlefields; 4. Machines, weapons, and protagonists; 5. 'Distance', killing, and the enemy; 6. Comradeship, leadership, and martial fraternity; 7. Selfhood and coming of age in veteran memoir; 8. History, cultural memory, and the veteran-memoirist; Conclusion.
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