Introduction 'remembering' war

Journal of Contemporary History

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 473-485

  Bourke, Joanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 56549129519     PISSN: 00220094     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022009404046750     Document Type: Editorial

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5. Joanna Bourke, An Intimate History of Killing: Face-to-Face Killing in Twentieth Century History (London 1999), chap. 10
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13. Cited in John Costello, Love, Sex and War, Changing Values 1939-45 (London 1985), 142
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17. See also Jay M. Winter, Witnesses to War: The Great War and the Arts of Remembrance in the Twentieth Century (New Haven, CT 2004)
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53. For an interesting discussion which has a different focus, see Yael Zerubauel, 'The Death of Memory and the Memory of Death: Masada and the Holocaust as Historical Metaphors', Représentations, 45 (Winter 1994), 73
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