War Stories: The War Memoir in History and Literature

War Stories: The War Memoir in History and Literature

War Stories: The War Memoir in History and Literature

War Stories: The War Memoir in History and Literature

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Overview

Although war memoirs constitute a rich, varied literary form, they are often dismissed by historians as unreliable. This collection of essays is one of the first to explore the modern war memoir, revealing the genre's surprising capacity for breadth and sophistication while remaining sensitive to the challenges it poses for scholars. Covering conflicts from the Napoleonic era to today, the studies gathered here consider how memoirs have been used to transmit particular views of war even as they have emerged within specific social and political contexts.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781785338403
Publisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Publication date: 04/09/2018
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 334
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Philip Dwyer is Professor in Modern European History and Director of the Centre for the History of Violence at the University of Newcastle, Australia. His recent publications include Theatres of Violence: Massacre, Mass Killing and Atrocity throughout History, coedited with Lyndall Ryan (2012). His monograph Napoleon: The Path to Power, 1769-1799 (2008) won the Australian National Biography Award.

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1. Making Sense of the Muddle: War Memoirs and the Culture of Remembering
Philip Dwyer

Chapter 2. War Memoirs, Witnessing and Silence
Jay Winter

Chapter 3. ‘A Lively School of Writing’: George Gleig, Moyle Sherer and the Romantic Military Memoir
Neil Ramsey

Chapter 4. ‘The Tallest Pine in the Political Forest’: Race and Slavery in the Confederate Veteran’s Memoir, 1866–1915
Craig A. Warren

Chapter 5. British Memoirs and Memories of the Great War
Ian Isherwood

Chapter 6. A Cog in the Machine of History? Japanese Memoirs of Total War (1937–45)
Aaron William Moore

Chapter 7. Post-Soviet Russian Memoirs of the Second World War
Roger D. Markwick

Chapter 8. Reimagining the Yugoslav Partisan Epic
Vesna Drapac

Chapter 9. The War That Was Not: 1948 Israeli War Memoirs
Ilan Pappe

Chapter 10. Remembering the ‘Endless’ Partition: From Memoirs about the 1947 Conflict to the Post-Memoir
Tarun K. Saint

Chapter 11. ‘To Be Made Over’: Vietnamese-American Re-education Camp Narratives
Subarno Chattarji

Chapter 12. Memoir Writing as Narrative Therapy: A South African Border War Veteran’s Story
Gary Baines

Chapter 13. Pugnacity, Pain and Professionalism: British Combat Memoirs from Afghanistan, 2006–14
Joanna Bourke

Index

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