Publication

Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, Bern, No place, unknown, or undetermined

Language

English

Word Count

64,750 words, Guess

Page Count

259 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139783653996807
  • ISBN-139783653996814
  • ISBN-139783631640494
  • ISBN-103653996805
  • ISBN-103653996813
and 6 more
  • ISBN-103631640498
  • Library of Congress Control Number2014043630
  • Better World Books9783631640494
  • Better World Books9783653996814
  • Better World Books9783653996807
  • Open LibraryOL28356127M

Classifications

  • LCCUB445.P7 W3913 2015
  • LCCUB445.P7W3913 2015

Description

In the vast literature on how the Second World War has been remembered in Europe, research into what happened in communist Poland, a country most affected by the war, is surprisingly scarce. The long gestation of Polish narratives of heroism and sacrifice, explored in this book, might help to understand why the country still finds itself in a «mnemonic standoff» with Western Europe, which tends to favour imagining the war in a civil, post-Holocaust, human rights-oriented way. The specific focus of this book is the organized movement of war veterans and former prisoners of Nazi camps from the 1940s until the end of the 1960s, when the core narratives of war became well established.

Subjects

Topics

HistoryVeteransSocietiesPhilosophyHistoriographyCultural studiesWorld War, 1939-1945

Links

Other Editions

  • Veterans, Victims, and MemoryPeter Lang International Academic Publishers

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