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Nordic Narratives of the Second World War: National Historiographies Revisited

By Henrik Stenius

Book information

Publisher
Nordic Academic Press
Year
2011
ISBN
9789185509805, 9789185509492
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
672 kB (688224 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2023-01-04 07:51:37
History; Military; Nonfiction; HIS027100

Description

Written by leading Nordic historians, this analysis discusses postwar memory and war historiographies from the perspectives of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden vis-à-vis the Second World War. Focusing on the relationship between scholarly and public understandings of the war, this book presents the overarching themes that set apart the Nordic experience while remaining attentive to the distinctive characteristics of war time in each of the five different countries. A major contribution to the international debate on postwar memory, this fascinating account speaks to all those who have an interest in the modern European history.

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