Table of Contents
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements
Foreword: Between World Wars: Remembering War in Europe before 1945 Richard Overy
Introduction: The Long Aftermath of the Long Second World War Manuel Bragança and Peter Tame
PART I: SPAIN
Chapter 1. Violence and the History and Memory of the Spanish Civil War: Beyond the Crisis of Inherited Narrative Frameworks Pablo Sánchez León
Chapter 2. Poetry and Silence in Post-Civil War Spain: Carmen Conde, Lucía Sánchez Saornil and Pilar de Valderrama Jean Andrews
Chapter 3. On Civil-War Memory in Spanish Women’s Narratives: The Example of Cristina Fernández Cubas’ Cosas que ya no existen Alison Ribeiro de Menezes
PART II: THE UNITED KINGDOM
Chapter 4. Narrating Britain’s War: A ‘Four Nations and More’ Approach to the People’s War Daniel Travers and Paul Ward
Chapter 5. ‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’: the Representation of Germans in British Second World War Films Robert Murphy
Chapter 6. Memory and Nation in British Narratives of the Second World War after 1945 Mark Rawlinson
PART III: FRANCE
Chapter 7. A Capital Problem: The Town of Vichy, the Second World War, and the Politics of Identity Kirrily Freeman
Chapter 8. Tracking the Past in the Places and Spaces of Patrick Modiano’s Early Fiction Peter Tame
Chapter 9. Vercors and the Second World War Cristina Solé-Castells
PART IV: GERMANY
Chapter 10. Reconstructing D-Day Memory: How Contemporary Politics made Germans Victims of the War Harold J. Goldberg
Chapter 11. Memories of World War II in German Film after 1945 Christiane Schönfeld
Chapter 12. Ilse Aichinger’s Novel The Greater Hope. Poetic Narrative to Deal with Trauma Marko Pajević
PART V: ITALY
Chapter 13. Victimhood Asserted: Italian Memories of World War II Richard J. B. Bosworth
Chapter 14. Re-picturing the Myth: American Characters in Post-War Popular Italian Cinema Daniela Treveri Gennari
Chapter 15. Italian Resistance Writing in the Years of the ‘Second Republic’ Philip Cooke
PART VI: POLAND
Chapter 16. The Second World War in Present-Day Polish Memory and Politics Andrzej Paczkowski
Chapter 17. Wounded Memory. Rhetorical Strategies Used in Public Discourse on the Katyń Massacre Urszula Jarecka
Chapter 18. The Second World War in Recent Polish Counterfactual and Alternative (Hi)stories Marzena Sokołowska-Paryż
PART VII: USSR / RUSSIA
Chapter 19. History Politics and the Changing Meaning of Victory Day in Contemporary Russia Markku Kangaspuro
Chapter 20. War and Patriotism: Russian War Films and the Lessons for Today David Gillespie
Chapter 21. Russian Fiction at War Greg Carleton
Afterword: Memories of War: From the Sacred to the Secular Jay Winter
Index
