Experience and memory
Subtitle: the Second World War in Europe
By: edited by Jörg Echternkamp and Stefan Martens
Edition: First paperback edition
Series: Contemporary European history -- v. 7
Publisher: Berghahn
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9781782380931
Subjects: Historiography; Collective memory; Violence; Influence; Experience; War and society; Congresses; World War, 1939-1945; Social conditions; History
Work titles: Zweite Weltkrieg in Europa. English
Notes: Originally published in 2010 as Der Zweite Weltkrieg in Europa: Erfahrung und Erinnerung.

Papers from an international colloquium held in Paris, France, in April 3-4, 2006.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: A new perspective on the war / Henry Rousso; title: Conceptualizing the occupations of Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands (1933/1944) / Benoît Majerus; title: The role of the war in national societies : the examples of Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands / Chantal Kesteloot; title: Myths and realities of the "People's War" in Britain / John Ramsden; title: "We can take it!" : Britain and the memory of the home front in the Second World War / Mark Connelly; title: Experience and memory : the Second World War in Poland / Piotr Madajczyk; title: Remembering and researching the war : the Soviet and Russian experience / Sergei Kudryashov; title: Bombing and land war in Italy : military strategy, reactions, and collective memory / Gabriella Gribaudi; title: Italy as occupier in the Balkans : remembrance and war crimes after 1945 / Filippo Focardi; title: Brest under bombardment (1940/1944) : being in war / Pierre Le Goïc; title: Experiences of war, memories of war, and political behavior : the example of the French Communist Party / Philippe Buton; title: The air war, the public, and cycles of memory / Dietmar Süss; title: The long shadows of the Second World War : the impact of experiences and memories of war on West German society / Axel Schildt; title: The war in postwar society : the role of the Second World War in public and private spheres in the Soviet occupation zone and early GDR / Dorothee Wierling; title: Violence and victimhood : looking back at the world wars in Europe / Richard Bessel; title: The meanings of the Second World War in contemporary European history / Jörg Echternkamp and Stefan Martens.