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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      28 December 2018
      10 January 2019
      ISBN:
      9781108690164
      9781108496919
      9781108739061
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108690164
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.58kg, 302 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.5kg, 306 Pages
      • Series:
      Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
      Subjects:
      Twentieth Century British History, Military History, Twentieth Century European History, History
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    Series:
    Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
    Subjects:
    Twentieth Century British History, Military History, Twentieth Century European History, History
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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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      pp 1-26
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