Popular memory of World War II was the dominant factor contributing to a sense of national identity in the Falklands War of 1982 and the Gulf War of 1991. This text looks at public and private ideas of national identity, how they were arrived at and the extent to which they were shaped by gender. It provides a synthesis between the key concepts of ""national identity,"" ""popular memory"" and gender as a social and cultural construct.
Recent studies of World War II, and popular memory of the war, have focused on the extent to which it is remembered as a ""people's war."" This book builds...