داستان‌های جنگ: خاطرات جنگ در تاریخ و ادبیات

Although war memoirs constitute a rich, varied literary form, they are often dismissed by historians as unreliable. This collection of essays is one of the first to explore the modern war memoir, revealing the genre’s surprising capacity for breadth and sophistication while remaining sensitive to the challenges it poses for scholars. Covering conflicts from the Napoleonic era to today, the studies gathered here consider how memoirs have been used to transmit particular views of war even as they have emerged within specific social and political contexts. Contents Preface Chapter 1 Making Sense of the Muddle: War Memoirs and the Culture of Remembering Chapter 2 War Memoirs, Witnessing and Silence Chapter 3 ‘A Lively School of Writing’ George Gleig, Moyle Sherer and the Romantic Military Memoir Chapter 4 ‘The Tallest Pine in the Political Forest’ Race and Slavery in the Confederate Veteran’s Memoir, 1866–1915 Chapter 5 British Memoirs and Memories of the Great War Chapter 6 A Cog in the Machine of History? Japanese Memoirs of Total War (1937–45) Chapter 7 Post-Soviet Russian Memoirs of the Second World War Chapter 8 Reimagining the Yugoslav Partisan Epic Chapter 9 The War That Was Not 1948 Israeli War Memoirs Chapter 10 Remembering the ‘Endless’ Partition: From Memoirs about the 1947 Conflict to the Post-Memoir Chapter 11 ‘To Be Made Over’ Vietnamese-American Re-education Camp Narratives Chapter 12 Memoir Writing as Narrative Therapy: A South African Border War Veteran’s Story Chapter 13 Pugnacity, Pain and Professionalism: British Combat Memoirs from Afghanistan, 2006–14 Index Although war memoirs constitute a rich, varied literary form, they are often dismissed by historians as unreliable. This collection of essays explores the modern war memoir, revealing the genre's surprising capacity for breadth and sophistication while remaining sensitive to the challenges it poses for scholars. Covering conflicts from the Napoleonic era to today, the studies gathered here consider how memoirs have been used to transmit particular views of war even as they have emerged within specific social and political contexts