Frances Houghton

The Veterans' Tale

British Military Memoirs of the Second World War

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Reveals how memoirs are rich repositories of information about the ways in which veterans remembered, understood, and recounted their war.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 163mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781108496919
• ISBN-10: 1108496911
• Artikelnr.: 53542522

Autorenporträt

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.