Toward a virtual reenactment of history: Video games and the recreation of the past

Rethinking History

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 411-425

  Rejack, Brian ^a  

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Author keywords

Brothers in Arms; History; Reenactment; Sympathy; Video Games; World War II

Indexed keywords

EID: 57749161596     PISSN: 13642529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13642520701353652     Document Type: Review

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