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.
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.
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Produktdetails
Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
Frances Houghton is Lecturer in Modern British History at the University of Manchester. She has contributed chapters to several edited volumes and her work has been published in the Journal of War and Culture Studies.
Inhaltsangabe
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.
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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