War stories : the war memoir in history and literature /
War stories : the war memoir in history and literature /
edited by Philip Dwyer.
- viii, 324 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface Chapter 1. Making Sense of the Muddle: War Memoirs and the Culture of Remembering Philip Dwyer Chapter 2. War Memoirs, Witnessing and Silence Jay Winter Chapter 3. 'A Lively School of Writing': George Gleig, Moyle Sherer and the Romantic Military Memoir Neil Ramsey Chapter 4. 'The Tallest Pine in the Political Forest': Race and Slavery in the Confederate Veteran's Memoir, 1866-1915 Craig A. Warren Chapter 5. British Memoirs and Memories of the Great War Ian Isherwood Chapter 6. A Cog in the Machine of History? Japanese Memoirs of Total War (1937-45) Aaron William Moore Chapter 7. Post-Soviet Russian Memoirs of the Second World War Roger D. Markwick Chapter 8. Reimagining the Yugoslav Partisan Epic Vesna Drapac Chapter 9. The War That Was Not: 1948 Israeli War Memoirs Ilan Pappe Chapter 10. Remembering the 'Endless' Partition: From Memoirs about the 1947 Conflict to the Post-Memoir Tarun K. Saint Chapter 11. 'To Be Made Over': Vietnamese-American Re-education Camp Narratives Subarno Chattarji Chapter 12. Memoir Writing as Narrative Therapy: A South African Border War Veteran's Story Gary Baines Chapter 13. Pugnacity, Pain and Professionalism: British Combat Memoirs from Afghanistan, 2006-14 Joanna Bourke Index.
9781785333071 (hardback : alk. paper)
2016026097
Military biography--History.
Soldiers--Biography--History and criticism.
Soldiers' writings--History.
Biography as a literary form.
War in literature.
Autobiography.
U51 / .W34 2017
355.0092
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface Chapter 1. Making Sense of the Muddle: War Memoirs and the Culture of Remembering Philip Dwyer Chapter 2. War Memoirs, Witnessing and Silence Jay Winter Chapter 3. 'A Lively School of Writing': George Gleig, Moyle Sherer and the Romantic Military Memoir Neil Ramsey Chapter 4. 'The Tallest Pine in the Political Forest': Race and Slavery in the Confederate Veteran's Memoir, 1866-1915 Craig A. Warren Chapter 5. British Memoirs and Memories of the Great War Ian Isherwood Chapter 6. A Cog in the Machine of History? Japanese Memoirs of Total War (1937-45) Aaron William Moore Chapter 7. Post-Soviet Russian Memoirs of the Second World War Roger D. Markwick Chapter 8. Reimagining the Yugoslav Partisan Epic Vesna Drapac Chapter 9. The War That Was Not: 1948 Israeli War Memoirs Ilan Pappe Chapter 10. Remembering the 'Endless' Partition: From Memoirs about the 1947 Conflict to the Post-Memoir Tarun K. Saint Chapter 11. 'To Be Made Over': Vietnamese-American Re-education Camp Narratives Subarno Chattarji Chapter 12. Memoir Writing as Narrative Therapy: A South African Border War Veteran's Story Gary Baines Chapter 13. Pugnacity, Pain and Professionalism: British Combat Memoirs from Afghanistan, 2006-14 Joanna Bourke Index.
9781785333071 (hardback : alk. paper)
2016026097
Military biography--History.
Soldiers--Biography--History and criticism.
Soldiers' writings--History.
Biography as a literary form.
War in literature.
Autobiography.
U51 / .W34 2017
355.0092