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`We Can Take It!' shows that the British remember the war in a peculiar way, thanks to a mix of particular images and evidence. Our memory has been shaped by material which is completely removed from historical reality. These images (including complete inventions) have combined to make a new history. The vision is mostly cosy and suits the way in which the Britons conceive of themselves: dogged, good humoured, occasionally bumbling, unified and enjoying diversity. In fact Britons load their memory towards the early part of the war (Dunkirk, Blitz, Battle of Britain) rather than when we were

World War, 1939-1945 --- Collective memory --- Popular culture --- Nationalism --- Consciousness, National --- Identity, National --- National consciousness --- National identity --- International relations --- Patriotism --- Political science --- Autonomy and independence movements --- Internationalism --- Political messianism --- Collective remembrance --- Common memory --- Cultural memory --- Emblematic memory --- Historical memory --- National memory --- Public memory --- Social memory --- Memory --- Social psychology --- Group identity --- National characteristics --- European War, 1939-1945 --- Second World War, 1939-1945 --- World War 2, 1939-1945 --- World War II, 1939-1945 --- World War Two, 1939-1945 --- WW II (World War, 1939-1945) --- WWII (World War, 1939-1945) --- History, Modern --- History

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A groundbreaking, richly-illustrated study of how a sense of place was created on the battlefields of the Western Front by soldiers, veterans, and tourists during the First World War and in the interwar period, Postcards from the Western Front is compelling reading for the wide array of people interested in the history of war, and its aftereffects.

World War, 1914-1918 --- World War, 1914-1918 --- Battlefields --- Battlefields --- Arras. --- Belgium. --- First World War. --- France. --- Imperial War Graves Commission. --- Somme. --- Western Front. --- Ypres. --- cemeteries. --- commemoration. --- devastation. --- grief. --- images. --- imperialism. --- landscape. --- material culture. --- memorials. --- memory. --- patriotism. --- pilgrimage. --- profane. --- reconstruction. --- ritual. --- sacred. --- souvenirs. --- space. --- tourism. --- travel. --- veterans. --- walking. --- war dead. --- women.

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Prostitution --- History --- United States --- Moral conditions.