Narratives of War: Remembering and Chronicling Battle in Twentieth-Century Europe

ISBN-13: 9781138581210 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 226 str.

Nanci Adler; Remco Ensel; Michael Wintle

Opis

Narratives of War considers the way war and battle are remembered and narrated across space and time in Europe in the twentieth century. Multidisciplinary and using a range of examples, it is the ideal book for those interested in 20^th-century military history and memory and history.

Spis treści

Part I: Narrative and the Story of War  1. ‘Narratives of War in the Twentieth Century: an Introduction’  2. ‘A Tale of Two Battles: Narrating Verdun and the Somme, 1916’  Part II: Constructing War Narratives  3. ‘The Stories the First World War Inherited: Adaptations of Napoleonic Veterans’ Memoirs, 1814-1914  4. ‘The Archive as Narrator? Narratives of German "Enemy Citizens" in the Netherlands after 1945’  5. ‘Of Triumph and Defeat: World War II and its Historians in Post-war Germany’  6. ‘The Imagery of War: Screening the Battlefield in the Twentieth Century’  Part III: The Development and Deployment of War Narratives  7. ‘The War Books Controversy Revisited: First World War Novels and Veteran Memory’  8. ‘War and Peace as a "Paradoxical Coherence": How the European Union Uses the Remembrance of the Great War to Construct European Identities’  9. ‘History Wars in School Textbooks? The Massacres in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia in Polish History Textbooks since 1989’  10. ‘"I was Hurt and you were Hurt too": the Role of Religion and Competing Narratives in the Reconciliation Process in Bosnia and Herzegovina'  Part IV: Testimonies and Survivalist Narratives  11. ‘Hints of Heroism, Traces of Trauma: Trauma and Narrative Structure in Interviews with Dutch and English International Brigade Volunteers of the Spanish Civil War’  12. ‘Digital Survival? Online Interview Portals and the Re-Contextualization of Holocaust Testimonies’  13. ‘Remembering the Sternlager of Bergen-Belsen: Anecdotes, Humour and Poetry as Survival Strategies’  Part V: Conclusion 14. ‘Twentieth-Century Narratives of War: Conclusions’