D-day Remembered - The Normandy Landings in American Collective Memory

Informationen zum Autor MICHAEL R. DOLSKI is a historian with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency and lives in northern Virginia. He is the coeditor, with Sam Edwards and John Buckley, of D-Day in History and Memory . Klappentext Explores the evolution of American D-Day tales over the course of the past seven decades. Michael R. Dolski analyses how depictions in various media! such as the popular histories of Stephen Ambrose and films like Saving Private Ryan! have reaffirmed cherished American notions of democracy! fair play! moral order! and the militant! yet non-militaristic! use of power for divinely sanctioned purposes.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Dolski
• Publisher: Univeristy of Tennessee Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.02.2016
• EAN: 9781621902188
• ISBN: 978-1-62190-218-8
• Series: Legacies of War; Legacies of War
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Amerika, Zweiter Weltkrieg - Periode (1939 bis 1945), Geschichtsschreibung, Historiographie, HISTORY / Military / World War II, HISTORY / Historiography, History - Military / War, HISTORY / Military / United States