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L.H.E. (Esmeralda) Kleinreesink

On Military Memoirs

A Quantitative Comparison of International Afghanistan War Autobiographies, 2001-2010

L.H.E. (Esmeralda) Kleinreesink

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English

Brill
27 October 2016

Series: Egodocuments and History Series

Winner of the Caforio prize for the best book in armed forces and civil-military relations published between 2015 and 2016

In On Military Memoirs Esmeralda Kleinreesink offers insight into military books: who were their writers and publishers, what were their plots, and what motives did their authors have for writing them. Every Afghanistan war autobiography published in the US, the UK, Germany, Canada, and the Netherlands between 2001 and 2010 is compared quantitatively and qualitatively.

On Military Memoirs shows that soldier-authors are a special breed; that self-published books still cater to different markets than traditionally published ones; that cultural differences are clearly visible between warrior nations and non-warrior nations; that not every contemporary memoir is a disillusionment story; and that writing is serious business for soldiers wanting to change the world.

The book provides an innovative example of how to use interdisciplinary, mixed-method, cross-cultural research to analyse egodocuments.

By: L.H.E. (Esmeralda) Kleinreesink
Imprint: Brill
Edition: xvi, 386 pp. With 100 illustrations
Volume: 10
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 155mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 737g
ISBN: 9789004322530
ISBN 10: 9004322531
Series: Egodocuments and History Series
Pages: 404
Publication Date: 27 October 2016
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Esmeralda Kleinreesink, Ph.D. is a lieutenant-colonel with the Royal Netherlands Air Force. She obtained her doctorate at the Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication in 2014. She is also a certified interpreter Dutch-English. Her own military memoir on Afghanistan is called Officier in Afghanistan (Meulenhoff, 2012).

Reviews for On Military Memoirs: A Quantitative Comparison of International Afghanistan War Autobiographies, 2001-2010

innovative, refreshing, and ground breaking [...] a well-researched book with a convincing theoretical framework and insightful experiences, which can only be recommended to anyone interested in knowing the real life of military personnel. From the jury report of the Caforio Award, June 2017. This contribution to the literature on military writing is uniquely relevant and valuable. Kate Hendricks Thomas, Charleston Southern University. In: Journal of Veterans Studies, Vol. 2, No. 1 (2017), p. 122-126. In On Military Memoirs Dr. Esmeralda Kleinreesink provides the most extensive study ever published on autobiographical books written by soldiers. The author provides her readers with valuable insight on how soldiers experience their service, mainly in Afghanistan. On Military Memoirs is a book that should be on the shelf of every scholar and officer interested in military studies and be taught at every military academy and program on military studies. Professor Yagil Levy, The Open University of Israel