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Fragments of war : stories from survivors of World War II
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ISBN: 1282808788 1281957801 9786612808784 9786611957803 1770700528 1554881692 9781554881697 9781554885596 1554885590 9781770700529 0919670954 9780919670952 0919670946 9780919670945 0919760946 0919760954 Year: 1985 Publisher: Toronto, Ontario, Canada ; London, [England] : Dundurn Press,

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The young girl from the Ottawa Valley who served as a nurse in North Africa with only a helmet of fresh water a day, the teenage soldier from Fredericton who stole pig swill to survive in a Hong Kong prisoner of war camp, the English woman who survived the sinking of the Athenia to become a war-bride, and an Alberta airman who crashed off the icy coast of Greenland, these are but only four of the thirty compelling personal accounts of war experiences. Many provate photographs from their own albums illustrate these stories, which reflect the world wide aspect of the war from


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With the allies
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ISBN: 0665738692 4064066244620 9700000011730 Year: 1915 Publisher: Toronto : Copp, Clark,

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Ennemis fraternels (1914-1915) : Hans Rodewald, Antoine Bieisse, Fernand Tailhades. Carnets de guerre et de captivité
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ISBN: 2858166161 2810708894 9782858166169 Year: 2019 Publisher: Toulouse : Presses universitaires du Midi,

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Chacun sait à quel point les témoignages de soldats constituent une mine de renseignements pour l'histoire de la Grande Guerre. Les trois carnets reproduits ici présentent l'originalité d'émaner de combattants des deux camps. Hans Rodewald était allemand, Antoine Bieisse et Fernand Tailhades étaient français. Emportés par l'enthousiasme d'août 1914, les trois fantassins doivent rapidement faire face au concret qui produit un mélange d'excitation, d'angoisse et de compassion. Gravement blessés, tombés au pouvoir de l'adversaire, ils craignent pour leur vie mais sont soignés par des mains qui se révèlent fraternelles. Les trois hommes font l'expérience de l'humanité de ceux qu'ils désignaient jusque là par le terme convenu d'ennemi. Ce livre révèle la complexité et l'ambivalence de la pensée des combattants. Il apporte un nouveau démenti à la thèse simpliste qui veut que la haine de l'ennemi aurait éclipsé tout autre sentiment. Il montre que, sous un vernis de “culture de guerre”, existait aussi, plus profonde, une véritable “culture de paix”.

The embattled self : French soldiers' testimony of the Great War
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ISBN: 0801471206 1322523037 0801471214 9780801471216 9780801479564 0801479568 9780801445231 080144523X 9780801471209 9781322523033 Year: 2007 Publisher: Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press,

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How did the soldiers in the trenches of the Great War understand and explain battlefield experience, and themselves through that experience? Situated at the intersection of military history and cultural history, The Embattled Self draws on the testimony of French combatants to explore how combatants came to terms with the war. In order to do so, they used a variety of narrative tools at hand-rites of passage, mastery, a character of the soldier as a consenting citizen of the Republic. None of the resulting versions of the story provided a completely consistent narrative, and all raised more questions about the "truth" of experience than they answered. Eventually, a story revolving around tragedy and the soldier as victim came to dominate-even to silence-other types of accounts. In thematic chapters, Leonard V. Smith explains why the novel structured by a specific notion of trauma prevailed by the 1930's. Smith canvasses the vast literature of nonfictional and fictional testimony from French soldiers to understand how and why the "embattled self" changed over time. In the process, he undermines the conventional understanding of the war as tragedy and its soldiers as victims, a view that has dominated both scholarly and popular opinion since the interwar period. The book is important reading not only for traditional historians of warfare but also for scholars in a variety of fields who think critically about trauma and the use of personal testimony in literary and historical studies.


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Letters from the East : crusaders, pilgrims and settlers in the 12th-13th centuries
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ISBN: 9780754663560 0754663566 9781472413956 1472413954 9781472413949 1472413946 9781472413949 9781472413932 9781315592268 9781317105534 9781317105541 1317105559 1317105540 1315592266 1472413938 Year: 2010 Volume: 18 Publisher: Farnham : Ashgate,

Remembering and imagining the Holocaust : the chain of memory
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ISBN: 9780521869348 052186934X 9780511486098 9780511349904 0511349904 051148609X 1281085979 9781281085979 9786611085971 6611085971 1139132512 9781139132510 0511350805 9780511350801 0511349033 9780511349034 0511348061 9780511348068 110717130X Year: 2006 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This is a meditation on memory and on the ways in which memory has operated in the work of writers for whom the Holocaust was a defining event. It is also an exploration of the ways in which fiction and drama have attempted to approach a subject so resistant to the imagination. Beginning with W. G. Sebald, for whom memory and the Holocaust were the roots of a special fascination, Bigsby moves on to consider those writers Sebald himself valued, including Arthur Miller, Anne Frank, Primo Levi and Peter Weiss, and those whose lives crossed in the bleak world of the camps, in fact or fiction. The book offers a chain of memories. It sets witness against fiction, truth against wilful deceit. It asks the question who owns the Holocaust - those who died, those who survived to bear witness, those who appropriated its victims to shape their own necessities.


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Sociologie du soi : Essai d'herméneutique appliquée
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ISBN: 9782753519893 2753519897 2753563039 Year: 2018 Publisher: Rennes : Presses universitaires de Rennes,

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L'ouvrage de Johann Michel, au carrefour de la philosophie et des sciences sociales, vise à élaborer une sociologie du soi à partir de l'herméneutique de Paul Ricœur. La première partie de l'ouvrage se présente comme un essai théorique qui s'intéresse aux catégories particulières de techniques d'interprétations de sujets d'emblée engagés dans une histoire de vie. Le reste de l'ouvrage doit se lire comme une mise à l'épreuve empirique de ce projet théorique. Chaque chapitre compose le « roman vrai » d'une trajectoire biographique au cours de laquelle sont analysés les mises en intrigue de soi et les imaginaires sociaux, culturels et politiques. Les récits de vie portent plus précisément sur l'héritage de la guerre d'Algérie et de la migration algérienne en France. La thèse de l'ouvrage consiste à montrer que cet héritage ne cesse d'être transformé et reconfiguré au cours de l'existence, à la faveur de dispositifs actifs de réappropriation par les nouvelles générations. Les technologies de soi relèvent de cette part active de recomposition qui témoigne de la créativité et de l'inventivité de subjectivations ordinaires confrontées à des injonctions familiales et sociales parfois contradictoires, au « problème » de la « double culture », aux discriminations et aux stigmatisations sociales, au poids d'une guerre qui peine parfois à dire son nom.


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The new book of martyrs
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ISBN: 0665991606 Year: 1918 Publisher: Toronto : J.M. Dent,


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The last deployment : how a gay, hammer-swinging twentysomething survived a year in Iraq
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ISBN: 9780299282141 9780299282134 0299282139 0299282147 0299282147 128313442X 9786613134424 0299282198 9780299282196 6613134422 Year: 2011 Publisher: Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press,

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In the midst of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy debate, a gay former soldier offers a firsthand account of his experiences in the Iraq war, capturing the real experience of gay servicemen and servicewomen.

Fleeing Hitler : France 1940
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ISBN: 1281146900 9786611146900 0191517445 1429498528 9780191517440 0192806181 9780192806185 9781281146908 9781429498524 6611146903 9780199532599 0199532591 1383002843 Year: 2023 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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The author presents an account of how the fall of France in 1940 affected the lives of ordinary French people, and how it became a defining experience for France in the 20th century.

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