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The Veterans' Tale - British Military Memoirs of the Second World War (Hardcover)
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The Veterans' Tale - British Military Memoirs of the Second World War (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
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This is a unique account of the ways in which British veterans of
the Second World War remembered, understood, and recounted their
experiences of battle throughout the post-war period. Focusing on
themes of landscape, weaponry, the enemy, and comradeship, Frances
Houghton examines the imagery and language used by war memoirists
to reconstruct and review both their experiences of battle and
their sense of wartime self. Houghton also identifies how veterans'
memoirs became significant sites of contest as former servicemen
sought to challenge what they saw as unsatisfactory official,
scholarly, and cultural representations of the Second World War in
Britain. Her findings show that these memoirs are equally important
both for the new light they shed on the memory and meanings of
wartime military experience among British veterans, and for what
they tell us about the cultural identity of military life-writing
in post-war British society.
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