Format:
Online-Ressource (242 p)
ISBN:
9780226808567
Content:
The recent dedication of the World War II memorial and the sixtieth-anniversary commemoration of D-Day remind us of the hold that World War II still has over America's sense of itself. But the selective process of memory has radically shaped our picture of the conflict. Why else, for instance, was a 1995 Smithsonian exhibition on Hiroshima that was to include photographs of the first atomic bomb victims, along with their testimonials, considered so controversial? And why do we so readily remember the civilian bombings of Britain but not those of Dresden, Hamburg, and Tokyo? Marian
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Contents; Prologue: After 9/11; Introduction: Hiding in Plain Sight; One: D-Day; Two: Eichmann's Ghost; Three: Citizens of the Holocaust: The Vernacular of Growing up after World War II; Four: Unexploded Bombs; Five: ""They are ever returning to us, the dead"" : The Novel of W. G. Sebald; Conclusion: Toward an Ethics of Identification; Afterword; Notes; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226808796
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226808550
Additional Edition:
Print version The War Complex : World War II in Our Time
Language:
English
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