Jörg Arnold

The Allied Air War and Urban Memory

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A first study in English of the cultural legacy of World War II bombing in post-war Germany.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 410
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 591g
• ISBN-13: 9781316632451
• ISBN-10: 1316632458
• Artikelnr.: 46299429

Autorenporträt

Jörg Arnold teaches Modern European History at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany. His publications include Luftkrieg: Erinnerungen in Deutschland und Europa (The Air War: Memories in Germany and Europe), co-edited with Dietmar Süß and Malte Thießen (2009).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. From experience to memory
Part I. Commemorating Death: 2. 'Soldiers of the Heimat', 1940-5
3. 'In quiet memory'? 1945-75
4. The return of the dead, 1979-95
Part II. Confronting Destruction: 5. 'What we have lost', 1940-60
6. From celebration to lamentation, 1960-95
Part III. Writing Histories: 7. The 'night of horror', 1940-70
8. The 'greatest event in municipal history', 1970-95
Conclusion.