Veterans'' Tale - British Military Memoirs of the Second World War

Reveals how memoirs are rich repositories of information about the ways in which veterans remembered, understood, and recounted their war.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Motive and the veteran-memoirist; 2. Penning and publishing the veteran's tale; 3. Landscape, nature, and battlefields; 4. Machines, weapons, and protagonists; 5. 'Distance', killing, and the enemy; 6. Comradeship, leadership, and martial fraternity; 7. Selfhood and coming of age in veteran memoir; 8. History, cultural memory, and the veteran-memoirist; Conclusion.

About the author

Frances Houghton is Lecturer in Modern British History at the University of Manchester. She has contributed chapters to several edited volumes and her work has been published in the Journal of War and Culture Studies.

Summary

Reveals how veteran memoirs serve as rich repositories of information about the ways in which former servicemen remembered, understood, and recounted the Second World War, shedding new light on experiences of battle and the veteran's sense of wartime self, as well as the emotional meanings war memoirists attached to their narratives.

Product details

• Authors: Frances Houghton, Frances (University of Manchester) Houghton
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781108739061
• ISBN: 978-1-108-73906-1
• No. of pages: 305
• Series: Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Europe, Diaries, letters & journals, HISTORY / Military / General, Memoirs, Second World War, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Diaries, letters and journals, Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Military veterans