Experience and Memory The Second World War in Europe [Hardcover]

Modern military history, inspired by social and cultural historical approaches, increasingly puts the national histories of the Second World War to the test. New questions and methods are focusing on aspects of war and violence that have long been neglected. What shaped peoples experiences and memories? What differences and what similarities existed in Eastern and Western Europe? How did the political framework influence the individual and the collective interpretations of the war? Finally, what are the benefits of Europeanizing the history of the Second World War? Experts from Belgium, Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy, Luxembourg, Poland, and Russia discuss these and other questions in this comprehensive volume.

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Chapter 1.A New Perspective on the War
Henry Rousso

Chapter 2.Conceptualizing the Occupations of Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands (19331944)
Beno?t Majerus

Chapter 3.The Role of the War in National Societies: The Examples of Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands
Chantal Kesteloot

Chapter 4.Myths and Realities of the Peoples War in Britain
John Ramsden

Chapter 5.We Can Take It! Britain and the Memory of the Home front in the Second World War
Mark Connelly

Chapter 6.Experience and Memory: The Second World War in Poland
Piotr Madajczyk

Chapter 7. Remembering and Researching the War: The Soviet and Russian Experience
Sergei Kudryashov

Chapter 8.Bombing and Land War in Italy: Military Strategy, Reactions, and Collective Memory
Gabriella Gribaudi

Chapter 9.Italy as Occupier in the Balkans: Remembrances and War Crimes after 1945
Filippo Focardi

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