The Veterans' Tale
eBook - PDF

The Veterans' Tale

British Military Memoirs of the Second World War

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Veterans' Tale

British Military Memoirs of the Second World War

About this book

This is a unique account of the ways in which British veterans of the Second World War remembered, understood, and recounted their experiences of battle throughout the post-war period. Focusing on themes of landscape, weaponry, the enemy, and comradeship, Frances Houghton examines the imagery and language used by war memoirists to reconstruct and review both their experiences of battle and their sense of wartime self. Houghton also identifies how veterans' memoirs became significant sites of contest as former servicemen sought to challenge what they saw as unsatisfactory official, scholarly, and cultural representations of the Second World War in Britain. Her findings show that these memoirs are equally important both for the new light they shed on the memory and meanings of wartime military experience among British veterans, and for what they tell us about the cultural identity of military life-writing in post-war British society.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series page
  4. Title page
  5. Imprints page
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. List of Abbreviations
  10. Introduction
  11. 1 Motive and the Veteran-Memoirist
  12. 2 Penning and Publishing the Veteran’s Tale
  13. 3 Landscape, Nature, and Battlefields
  14. 4 Machines, Weapons, and Protagonists
  15. 5 ‘Distance’, Killing, and the Enemy
  16. 6 Comradeship, Leadership, and Martial Fraternity
  17. 7 Selfhood and Coming of Age in Veteran Memoir
  18. 8 History, Cultural Memory, and the Veteran-Memoirist
  19. Conclusion
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index