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Experience and memory : the Second World War in Europe / edited by Jörg Echternkamp and Stefan Martens.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in contemporary European history ; Volume 7.
- Contemporary European History ; Volume 7
- Standardized Title:
- Zweite Weltkrieg in Europa.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects--Europe--Congresses.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Europe--Historiography--Congresses.
- World War, 1939-1945--Influence--Congresses.
- Experience--Social aspects--Europe--History--20th century--Congresses.
- Experience.
- Collective memory--Europe--History--20th century--Congresses.
- Collective memory.
- War and society--Europe--History--20th century--Congresses.
- War and society.
- Violence--Social aspects--Europe--History--20th century--Congresses.
- Violence.
- Europe--Social conditions--20th century--Congresses.
- Europe.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (311 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Modern military history, inspired by social and cultural historical approaches, increasingly puts the national histories of the Second World War to the test. New questions and methods are focusing on aspects of war and violence that have long been neglected. What shaped people's experiences and memories? What differences and what similarities existed in Eastern and Western Europe? How did the political framework influence the individual and the collective interpretations of the war? Finally, what are the benefits of Europeanizing the history of the Second World War? Experts from Belgium, Ge
- Contents:
- Experience and Memory; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; Chapter 1: A New Perspective on the War; Chapter 2: Conceptualizing the Occupations of Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands (1933-1944); Chapter 3: The Role of the Warin National Societies; Chapter 4: Myths and Realities of the "People's War" in Britain; Chapter 5: "We Can Take It!"; Chapter 6: Experience and Memory; Chapter 7: Remembering and Researching the War; Chapter 8: Bombing and Land War in Italy; Chapter 9: Italy as Occupier in the Balkans; Chapter 10: Brest under Bombardment (1940-1944)
- Chapter 11: Experiences of War, Memories of War,and Political BehaviorChapter 12: The Air War, the Public, and Cycles of Memory; Chapter 13: The Long Shadows of the Second World War; Chapter 14: The War in Postwar Society; Chapter 15: Violence and Victimhood; Chapter 16: The Meanings of the Second World War in Contemporary European History; List of Contributors; Bibliography; Index of Names; Index of Places
- Notes:
- "Originally published in 2010 as Der Zweite Weltkrieg in Europa: Erfahrung und Erinnerung"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781845459888
- 1845459881
- OCLC:
- 902684735
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