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Narratives of war : remembering and chronicling battle in twentieth-century Europe / Nanci Adler Ed.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Memory and narrativePublisher: New York, NY : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2019Description: xiv, 226p.: ill.: 23cm illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781138581203 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 9781138581210 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Narratives of warDDC classification:
  • 355.02094 ADL 23
LOC classification:
  • D424 .N37 2019
Contents:
A tale of two battles: narrating Verdun and the Somme, 1916 / John Horne -- The stories the First World War inherited: adaptations of Napoleonic veterans' memoirs, 1814-1914 / Matilda Greig -- The archive as narrator? narratives of German "enemy citizens" in the Netherlands after 1945 / Marieke Oprel -- Of triumph and defeat: World War II and its historians in post-war Germany / Christina Morina -- The imagery of war: screening the battlefield in the twentieth century / Frank van Vree -- The war books controversy revisited: First World War novels and veteran memory / Dunja Dusanic -- War and peace as a "paradoxical coherence": how the European Union uses the remembrance of the Great War to construct European identities / Peter Pichler -- History wars in school textbooks? the massacres in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia in Polish history textbooks since 1989 / Sylwia Bobryk -- "I was hurt and you were hurt too": the role of religion and competing narratives in the reconciliation process in Bosnia and Herzegovina / Marieke Zoodsma -- Hints of heroism, traces of trauma: trauma and narrative structure in interviews with Dutch and English international brigade volunteers of the Spanish Civil War / Tim Scheffe -- Digital survival? online interview portals and the re-contextualization of Holocaust testimonies / Susan Hogervorst -- Remembering the Sternlager of Bergen-Belsen: anecdotes, humour and poetry as survival strategies / Evelien Gans.
Summary: "Narratives of War considers the way war and battle are remembered and narrated across space and time in Europe in the twentieth century. The book reflects on how narratives are generated and deployed, and their function as coping mechanisms, means of survival, commemorative gestures, historical records, and evidence with reference to a variety of wars and narratives genres. Approached from a multidisciplinary perspective, and taken together, analysis of these narratives contributes to our understanding of the causes, experience, dynamics, and consequences of war, making it the ideal book for those interested in twentieth-century military history and memory and history"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

A tale of two battles: narrating Verdun and the Somme, 1916 / John Horne -- The stories the First World War inherited: adaptations of Napoleonic veterans' memoirs, 1814-1914 / Matilda Greig -- The archive as narrator? narratives of German "enemy citizens" in the Netherlands after 1945 / Marieke Oprel -- Of triumph and defeat: World War II and its historians in post-war Germany / Christina Morina -- The imagery of war: screening the battlefield in the twentieth century / Frank van Vree -- The war books controversy revisited: First World War novels and veteran memory / Dunja Dusanic -- War and peace as a "paradoxical coherence": how the European Union uses the remembrance of the Great War to construct European identities / Peter Pichler -- History wars in school textbooks? the massacres in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia in Polish history textbooks since 1989 / Sylwia Bobryk -- "I was hurt and you were hurt too": the role of religion and competing narratives in the reconciliation process in Bosnia and Herzegovina / Marieke Zoodsma -- Hints of heroism, traces of trauma: trauma and narrative structure in interviews with Dutch and English international brigade volunteers of the Spanish Civil War / Tim Scheffe -- Digital survival? online interview portals and the re-contextualization of Holocaust testimonies / Susan Hogervorst -- Remembering the Sternlager of Bergen-Belsen: anecdotes, humour and poetry as survival strategies / Evelien Gans.

"Narratives of War considers the way war and battle are remembered and narrated across space and time in Europe in the twentieth century. The book reflects on how narratives are generated and deployed, and their function as coping mechanisms, means of survival, commemorative gestures, historical records, and evidence with reference to a variety of wars and narratives genres. Approached from a multidisciplinary perspective, and taken together, analysis of these narratives contributes to our understanding of the causes, experience, dynamics, and consequences of war, making it the ideal book for those interested in twentieth-century military history and memory and history"-- Provided by publisher.

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