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Book SynopsisExplores changing German memories of World War II. The book analyses the construction of narratives in the postwar period including the depiction of the bombing of individual German cities, offering a corrective notion to the idea that arose in the 1990s that discussions of the Allied bombing were long overdue.
Trade ReviewSmart, thought-provoking, engaging, and important. The topic of the bombing war has moved to center stage in discussions of how best to remember and commemorate the end of the Second World War in Germany, but we know very little about the ways in which “bodies and ruins” - the causalities of the bombing war - were remembered in the fifty years or so after 1945. David Crew fills in that story." —Robert Moeller, University of California-Irvine
