Title: War and memory in the twentieth century /
Authors: Evans, Martin.; Lunn, Kenneth.
Publisher: Berg,
Year: 1997
Subjects: Warfare history; Warfare psychology; War History; Memory; War memorials; Attitude to Death; Memory; Psychology, Social; Politics
Abstract: War and Memory in the Twentieth Century explores differing ways in which memories of conflicts are constructed from a multitude of perspectives and representations, including the written and spoken word, cinematic and film images, photography, etc.
Contents: "I want to go on living after my death": the memory of Anne Frank / Tony Kushner -- Lacking in convictions: British war crimes policy and national memory of the Second World War / David Cesarani -- "A low-key affair": memories of civilian internment in the Far East, 1942-1945 / Bernice Archer -- Facing "the finger of scorn": veterans' memories of Ireland after the Great War / Jane Leonard -- Rehabilitating the traumatized war veteran: the cases of French conscripts from the Algerian War, 1954-1962 / Martin Evans -- Making histories: experiencing the Blitz in London's Museums in the 1990s / Lucy Noakes -- Love letters versus letters carved in stone: gender, memory and the "Forces Sweethearts" exhibition / Margaretta Jolly -- Private grief and public remembrance: British First World War memorials / Catherine Moriarity -- Memory, memorials and commemoration of war in Lorraine, 1908-1988 / William Kidd -- Popular film, populary memory: the case of the Second World War / Sue Harper -- The Vietnam film and American memory / John Hellmann -- Past wars and present conflicts: from the Second World War to the Gulf / Martin Shaw -- Remembering Desert Storm: popular culture and the Gulf War / Jeffrey Walsh -- Religion, politics and remembrance: a free church community and its Great War dead / Barry M. Doyle -- Memories of the Second World War and national identity in Germany / Gerd Knischewski and Ulla Spittler -- War and memory in the new world order / Phil Melling.