Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
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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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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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