When the War Was Over
Author | : Claire Duchen |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2010-07-15 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781441172709 |
ISBN-13 | : 144117270X |
Rating | : 4/5 (70X Downloads) |
Download or read book When the War Was Over written by Claire Duchen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-07-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular images of post-war women represent them welcoming home the soldiers, but this volume asks, "What happened next?"The contributors use a range of methodological approaches to encourage the reader to question traditional historiography, the nature of the historical evidence, the process of memory, and the disparities between official discourse and personal narrative, and between written, visual and oral accounts.