Description
Book SynopsisOffers an introduction to key issues in the study of war and memory that examines significant conflicts in twentieth-century Europe. David Messenger argues that in order to understand the history of twentieth-century Europe, we must first appreciate and accept how different societies and cultures remember their national conflicts.
Trade ReviewWar and Public Memory is a gripping story of Europe's most divisive conflicts. In lucid prose, Messenger traces how loss has been carved into the European landscape. This vital study demonstrates that past atrocities continue to shape national identity, while memorials transform war into productive mechanisms of memory." - Sara J. Brenneis, author of
Spaniards in Mauthausen: Representations of a Nazi Concentration Camp, 1940-2015Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Studying the Cultural Memory of War: Theory and Practice
- Chapter 2. Local, National, and International Memory of the First World War and the Armenian Genocide
- Chapter 3. The Bolshevik Revolution, Communism, and Successor States after the First World War: Memory and Identity in Interwar Eastern Europe
- Chapter 4. Victors’ Memory, Forgetting, and Recovery: Civil War Memory in Spain
- Chapter 5. Germany, Nazism, Collaboration, and the Holocaust: The History of the Second World War in Europe
- Chapter 6. Dealing with Nazism in Germany
- Chapter 7. War Memory in France and Poland
- Chapter 8. Finding the Holocaust and Jewish History in Contemporary Europe
- Chapter 9. The Memory of Communism and Conflict in Eastern Europe
- Chapter 10. War, Violence, and Memory Return: The Collapse of Yugoslavia and the War in Bosnia
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
