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Allies in Memory - World War II and the Politics ofTransatlantic Commemoration, c.1941-2001 (Hardcover)
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Allies in Memory - World War II and the Politics ofTransatlantic Commemoration, c.1941-2001 (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
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Amidst the ruins of postwar Europe, and just as the Cold War
dawned, many new memorials were dedicated to those Americans who
had fought and fallen for freedom. Some of these monuments,
plaques, stained-glass windows and other commemorative signposts
were established by agents of the US government, partly in the
service of transatlantic diplomacy; some were built by American
veterans' groups mourning lost comrades; and some were provided by
grateful and grieving European communities. As the war receded,
Europe also became the site for other forms of American
commemoration: from the sombre and solemn battlefield pilgrimages
of veterans, to the political theatre of Presidents, to the
production and consumption of commemorative souvenirs. With a
specific focus on processes and practices in two distinct regions
of Europe - Normandy and East Anglia - Sam Edwards tells a story of
postwar Euro-American cultural contact, and of the acts of
transatlantic commemoration that this bequeathed.
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