Description
Book SynopsisAfterlives of war documents the lives and historical pursuits of the generations who grew up in Australia, Britain and Germany after the First World War. Although they were not direct witnesses to the conflict, they experienced its effects from their earliest years. Based on ninety oral history interviews and observation during the First World War Centenary, this pioneering study reveals the contribution of descendants to the contemporary memory of the First World War, and the intimate personal legacies of the conflict that animate their history-making.
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Part I: Researcher
1 The evidence of afterlives
2 Family transmission
Part II: Observer
3 National narratives in the Centenary
4 Meeting in No Man’s Land: motives for remembrance – Michael Roper and Rachel Duffett
Part II: Historian
5 Fathers and the habits of home
6 Playing at war and being at war
7 Daughters, care and citizenship
Part IV: Descendant
8 Father and son on Bob’s war
9 Dysentery and the Anzac Legend
10 Legacies of dysentery
11 Stomaching peace
Epilogue
Index
