Experience and memory
Subtitle: the Second World War in Europe
By: [edited by] Jörg Echternkamp and Stefan Martens
Series: Contemporary European history -- v. 7
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9781845457631
Work titles: Zweite Weltkrieg in Europa. English
Description: Modern military history increasingly puts the national histories of the Second World War to the test. What shaped people's experiences and memories? What differences and what similarities existed in Eastern and Western Europe? This book discusses these questions and more.
Notes: 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) / Benoit 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.