D-Day in history and memory : the Normandy landings in international remembrance and commemoration / edited by Michael R. Dolski, Sam Edwards, John Buckley.
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 [and] shows that memories of the past vary over...
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| Other title: | "Portal of liberation" |
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| Language: | English |
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Denton, Texas :
UNT Press,
[2014]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Michael R. Dolski, Sam Edwards, John Buckley
- "Portal of liberation": D-Day myth as American self-affirmation / Michael R. Dolski
- The beginning of the end: D-Day in British memory / Sam Edwards
- Canada's D-Day: politics, media, and the fluidity of memory / Terry Copp, Matt Symes
- Gratitude, trauma, and repression: D-Day in French memory / Kate C. Lemay
- "Sie kommen": from defeat to liberation, German and Austrian memory of the Allied "invasion" of 6 June 1944 / Günter Bischof, Michael Maier
- "Their overdue landing": a view from the Eastern Front / Olga Kucherenko
- Conclusion / Michael R. Dolski, Sam Edwards, John Buckley.