D-Day in History and Memory [electronic resource] : The Normandy Landings in International Remembrance and Commemoration / edited by Michael Dolski, Sam Edwards, John Buckley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Buckley, John (John D.), editor of compilation.

Edwards, Sam, 1981- editor of compilation.

Dolski, Michael, 1978- editor of compilation.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nationalism and collective memory.

World War, 1939-1945--Historiography.

World War, 1939-1945.

World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--France--Normandy--Social aspects.

World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--France--Normandy.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 p.)

Edition:

Edition: 1

Place of Publication:

Denton, Texas : University of North Texas Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Over the past seventy years, the Allied invasion of Northwestern France in June 1944, known as D-Day, has come to stand as something more than a major battle. This book examines the commonalities and differences in national collective memories of D-Day.

Contents:

Introduction / Michael Dolski, Sam Edwards, John Buckley

"Portal of liberation": D-Day myth as American self-affirmation / Michael Dolski

The beginning of the end: D-Day in British memory / Sam Edwards

Canada's D-Day: politics, media, and the fluidity of memory / Terry Copp, Matt Symes

Gratitude, trauma, and repression: D-Day in French memory / Kate Lemay

"Sie kommen": from defeat to liberation, German and Austrian memory of the allied "invasion" of 6 June 1944 / Günter Bischof, Michael Maier

"Their overdue landing" : a view from the Eastern Front / Olga Kucherenko

Conclusion / Michael Dolski, Sam Edwards, John Buckley.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Contains:

"Portal of liberation".

Dolski, Michael, 1978- "Portal of liberation".

ISBN:

1-57441-558-1

OCLC:

878263343