The Veterans' Tale: British Military Memoirs of the Second World War

ISBN-13: 9781108739061 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 305 str.

Frances Houghton

Opis

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

Spis treści

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.