The Veterans' Tale

British Military Memoirs of the Second World War

Frances Houghton (University of Manchester)

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Cambridge University Press
29 October 2020

Diaries, letters & journals; Memoirs; History; Second World War; Military veterans

Series: Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare

This is a unique account of the ways in which British veterans of the Second World War remembered, understood, and recounted their experiences of battle throughout the post-war period. Focusing on themes of landscape, weaponry, the enemy, and comradeship, Frances Houghton examines the imagery and language used by war memoirists to reconstruct and review both their experiences of battle and their sense of wartime self. Houghton also identifies how veterans' memoirs became significant sites of contest as former servicemen sought to challenge what they saw as unsatisfactory official, scholarly, and cultural representations of the Second World War in Britain. Her findings show that these memoirs are equally important both for the new light they shed on the memory and meanings of wartime military experience among British veterans, and for what they tell us about the cultural identity of military life-writing in post-war British society.

By: Frances Houghton (University of Manchester)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 230mm, Width: 153mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 500g
ISBN: 9781108739061
ISBN 10: 1108739067
Series: Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
Pages: 305
Publication Date: 29 October 2020
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Frances Houghton is Lecturer in Modern British History at the University of Manchester. She has contributed chapters to several edited volumes and her work has been published in the Journal of War and Culture Studies.