Bodies and Ruins - Imagining the Bombing of Germany, 1945 to the Present

Klappentext Explores changing German memories of World War II! analysing the construction of narratives in the postwar period! including the depiction of the bombing of individual German cities. The book offers a corrective notion rising in the late 1990s notion that discussions of the Allied bombing were long overdue! showing that the bombing war was in fact a central strand of German memory and identity. Zusammenfassung Explores visual representations of the Allied bombing war on Germany to reveal how Germans remembered and commemorated WWII

Product details

• Authors: David F. Crew
• Publisher: University Of Michigan Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.05.2017
• EAN: 9780472130139
• ISBN: 978-0-472-13013-9
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories