D-Day in History and Memory
The Normandy Landings in International Remembrance and Commemoration
by Michael Dolski, Sam Edwards, and John Buckley, eds.
Description
Over the past sixty-five 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. The assault itself formed a vital component of Allied victory in the Second World War. D-Day developed into a sign and symbol; as a word it carries with it a series of ideas and associations that have come to symbolize different things to different people and nations. As such, the commemorative activities linked to the battle offer a window for viewing the various belligerents in their postwar years.
This book examines the commonalities and differences in national collective memories of D-Day. Chapters cover the main forces on the day of battle, including the United States, Great Britain, Canada, France and Germany. In addition, a chapter on Russian memory of the invasion explores other views of the battle.
“This collection takes readers into how an ‘event’ becomes many events: central to the canonical American narrative about ‘The Great Crusade,’ engaged with mixed feelings by the French, and almost completely written out of the Russian narrative of the war, for example.”—Edward T. Linenthal, author of Sacred Ground: Americans and Their Battlefields
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Bibliographic Information
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9781574415483
- Publication Country or regionUSA
- FormatHardback
- Primary Price 24.95
- Pages320
- Publish StatusPublished
- Page size6x9
- Illustration12 b&w illus.
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