Mark Connelly

We Can Take It! (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

We Can Take It explores how the memory of the Second World War continues to affect British contemporary life and why the war effort holds an important place in British culture, history and national identity. Connelly explores the way in which the British memory of the Second World War was created during the war, and maintained after it through cultural artefacts such as films, comics, art, literature and toys.

Connelly moves away from recent interpretations of the British war effort which have suggested that the rosy vision of cohesion, solidarity and unity is little more than a myth. Britain's role in the war is seen as something that we should be proud of, and need to come to terms with in order to eradicate problems in our national self-perception.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317869832
• Artikelnr.: 41212365

Autorenporträt

Connelly, Mark

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. 1. Mr Chamberlain's face: September 1939-May 1940. 2. A Colossal Military Disaster: Dunkirk and the Fall of France
May- June 1940. 3. The Fewest of the Few: the Battle of Britain
June-September 1940. 4. London Pride has been handed down to us: the Blitz
September 1940-May 1941. 5. Over-sexed
over-paid and over here: Home Front
1941-1945
Yanks
Women and Auntie Beeb. 6. Bless 'em all - the British Army
1941-1945. 7. 'Take That
Fritz': commandos
prisoners of war and the boy's own war. 8. 'It ain't half hot mum': the forgotten campaigns. 9. Gotcha!: recasting the Second World War
1945-2002. Epilogue.