The Veterans' Tale
The Veterans' Tale

Author: Frances Houghton

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-01-10

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 1108496911

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Reveals how memoirs are rich repositories of information about the ways in which veterans remembered, understood, and recounted their war.

Nurse Memoirs from the Great War in Britain, France, and Germany
Nurse Memoirs from the Great War in Britain, France, and Germany

Author: Jerry Palmer

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-10-19

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 3030828751

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Nurse Memoirs from the Great War in Britain, France, and Germany examines an understudied corpus of memoirs in English, French, and German stemming from the unprecedented involvement of women in the war effort. Jerry Palmer considers the memoirs in relationship to public opinion, collective memory and other women’s writing about the war. Through close-readings of the memoirs and their contexts, the book identifies themes present in the texts and considers the nurse memoir as rhetoric—examining to what extent the texts are promoting or countering arguments in the public sphere about their involvement or more widely about women’s position in society. Palmer explores the multiple contexts related to the nurse memoirs, including public response to volunteer wartime nursing, the organisation of the military health services of the three nations and their conduct in the war, and changes in the post-war organization of public health services and the professionalization of nursing.

Native Memoirs from the War of 1812
Native Memoirs from the War of 1812

Author: Carl Benn

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 1421412187

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Rare firsthand accounts from Native Americans who fought in the War of 1812. Native peoples played major roles in the War of 1812 as allies of both the United States and Great Britain, but few wrote about their conflict experiences. Two famously wrote down their stories: Black Hawk, the British-allied chief of the still-independent Sauks from the upper Mississippi, and American soldier William Apess, a Christian convert from the Pequots who lived on a reservation in Connecticut. Carl Benn explores the wartime passages of their autobiographies, in which they detail their decisions to take up arms, their experiences in the fighting, their broader lives within the context of native-newcomer relations, and their views on such critical issues as aboriginal independence. Scholars, students, and general readers interested in indigenous and military history in the early American republic will appreciate these important memoirs, along with Benn's helpful introductions and annotations.

Living the Cold War
Living the Cold War

Author: Christopher Mallaby

Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited

Published: 2017-10-15

Total Pages: 410

ISBN-13: 1445669625

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An insider's account of the Cold War as seen by a key diplomat abroad and in London. A privileged view of work that won the Cold War, written with humour and insight.

War Stories
War Stories

Author: Philip Dwyer

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2016-11-01

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1785333089

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Although war memoirs constitute a rich, varied literary form, they are often dismissed by historians as unreliable. This collection of essays is one of the first to explore the modern war memoir, revealing the genre’s surprising capacity for breadth and sophistication while remaining sensitive to the challenges it poses for scholars. Covering conflicts from the Napoleonic era to today, the studies gathered here consider how memoirs have been used to transmit particular views of war even as they have emerged within specific social and political contexts.