D-Day in history and memory the Normandy landings in international remembrance and commemoration /
D-Day in history and memory the Normandy landings in international remembrance and commemoration /
edited by Michael R. Dolski, Sam Edwards, John Buckley.
- Denton : University of North Texas Press, (c)2014.
- 1 online resource (321 pages) : illustrations, map
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographies and index.
List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction -- Michael R. Dolski, Sam Edwards, John Buckley; 1. "Portal of Liberation": D-Day Myth as AmericanSelf-Affirmation -- Michael R. Dolski; 2. The Beginning of the End: D-Day in British Memory -- Sam Edwards; 3. Canada's D-Day: Politics, Media, and the Fluidity of Memory -- Terry Copp, Matt Symes; 4. Gratitude, Trauma, and Repression: D-Day in French Memory -- Kate C. Lemay; "5. Sie Kommen": From Defeat to Liberation-German and Austrian Memory of the Allied "Invasion" of 6 June 1944 -- Günter Bischof, Michael Maier 6. "Their Overdue Landing": A View from the Eastern Front -- Olga KucherenkoConclusion -- Michael R. Dolski, Sam Edwards, John Buckley; Bibliography; Contributors' Biographies; Index
Over the past seventy years, the Allied invasion of Northwestern France in June 1944, known as D-Day, has come to stand as something more than a major battle. This book examines the commonalities and differences in national collective memories of D-Day.
9781574415582
Nationalism and collective memory.
World War, 1939-1945--Historiography.
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--France--Normandy.
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Social aspects--France--Normandy.
Nationalism and collective memory.
World War, 1939-1945.
Electronic Books.
D756 / .D339 2014
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographies and index.
List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction -- Michael R. Dolski, Sam Edwards, John Buckley; 1. "Portal of Liberation": D-Day Myth as AmericanSelf-Affirmation -- Michael R. Dolski; 2. The Beginning of the End: D-Day in British Memory -- Sam Edwards; 3. Canada's D-Day: Politics, Media, and the Fluidity of Memory -- Terry Copp, Matt Symes; 4. Gratitude, Trauma, and Repression: D-Day in French Memory -- Kate C. Lemay; "5. Sie Kommen": From Defeat to Liberation-German and Austrian Memory of the Allied "Invasion" of 6 June 1944 -- Günter Bischof, Michael Maier 6. "Their Overdue Landing": A View from the Eastern Front -- Olga KucherenkoConclusion -- Michael R. Dolski, Sam Edwards, John Buckley; Bibliography; Contributors' Biographies; Index
Over the past seventy years, the Allied invasion of Northwestern France in June 1944, known as D-Day, has come to stand as something more than a major battle. This book examines the commonalities and differences in national collective memories of D-Day.
9781574415582
Nationalism and collective memory.
World War, 1939-1945--Historiography.
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--France--Normandy.
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Social aspects--France--Normandy.
Nationalism and collective memory.
World War, 1939-1945.
Electronic Books.
D756 / .D339 2014