We Can Take It!

ISBN-13: 9780582506077 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 336 str.

Mark Connelly

Opis

Explores how the memory of the Second World War continues to affect British contemporary life. This book explores the way in which the British memory of the Second World War was created during the war, and maintained after it through cultural artifacts such as films, comics, art, literature and toys.

Spis treści

Introduction.  1. Mr Chamberlain’s face: September 1939-May 1940.  2. A Colossal Military Disaster: Dunkirk and the Fall of France, May- June 1940.  3. The Fewest of the Few: the Battle of Britain, June-September 1940.  4. London Pride has been handed down to us: the Blitz, September 1940-May 1941.  5. Over-sexed, over-paid and over here: Home Front, 1941-1945, Yanks, Women and Auntie Beeb.  6. Bless 'em all – the British Army, 1941-1945.  7. ‘Take That, Fritz’: commandos, prisoners of war and the boy’s own war.  8. ‘It ain’t half hot mum’: the forgotten campaigns.  9. Gotcha!: recasting the Second World War, 1945-2002.  Epilogue.

O autorze

Connelly, Mark