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Title War stories : the war memoir in history and literature / edited by Philip Dwyer
Published New York : Berghahn, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 324 pages)
Contents Making Sense of the Muddle: War Memoirs and the Culture of Remembering / Philip Dwyer -- War Memoirs, Witnessing and Silence / Jay Winter -- 'A Lively School of Writing': George Gleig, Moyle Sherer and the Romantic Military Memoir / Neil Ramsey -- 'The Tallest Pine in the Political Forest': Race and Slavery in the Confederate Veteran's Memoir, 1866-1915 / Craig A. Warren -- British Memoirs and Memories of the Great War / Ian Isherwood -- A Cog in the Machine of History? Japanese Memoirs of Total War (1937-45) / Aaron William Moore -- Post-Soviet Russian Memoirs of the Second World War / Roger D. Markwick -- Reimagining the Yugoslav Partisan Epic / Vesna Drapac -- The War That Was Not: 1948 Israeli War Memoirs / Ilan Pappe -- Remembering the 'Endless' Partition: From Memoirs about the 1947 Conflict to the Post-Memoir / Tarun K. Saint -- 'To Be Made Over': Vietnamese-American Re-education Camp Narratives / Subarno Chattarji -- Memoir Writing as Narrative Therapy: A South African Border War Veteran's Story / Gary Baines -- Pugnacity, Pain and Professionalism; British Combat Memoirs from Afghanistan, 2006-14 / Joanna Bourke
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Military biography -- History
Soldiers -- Biography -- History and criticism
Soldiers' writings -- History
Biography as a literary form.
War in literature.
Autobiography.
Biography.
Biographies as Topic
Autobiographies as Topic
biographies (literary works)
autobiography (genre)
biography (general genre)
HISTORY -- Military -- Other.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science.
Autobiography
Biography as a literary form
Military biography
Soldiers -- Biography
Soldiers' writings
War in literature
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
Author Dwyer, Philip G., editor.
ISBN 9781785333088
1785333089