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War Stories: The War Memoir in History and Literature

By Philip Dwyer

Book information

Publisher
Berghahn Books
Year
2016
ISBN
9781785333088, 9781785333071
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1246576 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2023-03-11 20:14:10
History; Literary Criticism; Military; Nonfiction;

Description

Although war memoirs constitute a rich, varied literary form, they are often dismissed by historians as unreliable. This collection of essays is one of the first to explore the modern war memoir, revealing the genre's surprising capacity for breadth and sophistication while remaining sensitive to the challenges it poses for scholars. Covering conflicts from the Napoleonic era to today, the studies gathered here consider how memoirs have been used to transmit particular views of war even as they have emerged within specific social and political contexts.

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