War Stories

Philip Dwyer is Professor in Modern European History and Director of the Centre for the History of Violence at the University of Newcastle, Australia. His recent publications include Theatres of Violence: Massacre, Mass Killing and Atrocity throughout History, coedited with Lyndall Ryan (2012). His monograph Napoleon: The Path to Power, 1769-1799 (2008) won the Australian National Biography Award.

• PrefaceChapter 1. Making Sense of the Muddle: War Memoirs and the Culture of RememberingPhilip DwyerChapter 2. War Memoirs, Witnessing and SilenceJay WinterChapter 3. ‘A Lively School of Writing’: George Gleig, Moyle Sherer and the Romantic Military MemoirNeil RamseyChapter 4. ‘The Tallest Pine in the Political Forest’: Race and Slavery in the Confederate Veteran’s Memoir, 1866–1915Craig A. WarrenChapter 5. British Memoirs and Memories of the Great WarIan IsherwoodChapter 6. A Cog in the Machine of History? Japanese Memoirs of Total War (1937–45)Aaron William MooreChapter 7. Post-Soviet Russian Memoirs of the Second World WarRoger D. MarkwickChapter 8. Reimagining the Yugoslav Partisan EpicVesna DrapacChapter 9. The War That Was Not: 1948 Israeli War MemoirsIlan PappeChapter 10. Remembering the ‘Endless’ Partition: From Memoirs about the 1947 Conflict to the Post-MemoirTarun K. SaintChapter 11. ‘To Be Made Over’: Vietnamese-American Re-education Camp NarrativesSubarno ChattarjiChapter 12. Memoir Writing as Narrative Therapy: A South African Border War Veteran’s StoryGary BainesChapter 13. Pugnacity, Pain and Professionalism: British Combat Memoirs from Afghanistan, 2006–14Joanna BourkeIndex

“The articles… all provide insights and are all engaging, a trait not often found in edited volumes. The topics range over time (from 17th-century European wars to present-day Afghanistan) and over continents (Europe, North America, Asia, Africa)… Dwyer’s own introductory article incisively orients readers not only to the memoir field, but also to the various perspectives and approaches inherent in war memoir presentation.” • Choice“The strength of the collection is that it draws together the themes of war-related historical narratives and contemporary memories on an international scale. The juxtaposition of these case-studies enables the reader to analyse how various national mythologies have been built and/or destroyed by (and with) the assistance of wartime memoirs…[The volume] shows that the study of war and memory was not just an academic fad of the late 1990s and early 2000s. The field of study continues to flourish, and the volume is a welcome addition to our continuing conversations about war, history and memory.” • English Historical Review“The overall quality and scope of this collection are excellent. Its methodological chapters are particularly strong, its case studies are well-chosen, and it manages to cover major engagements while giving attention to long-neglected topics.” • Sönke Neitzel, London School of Economics