Family Histories of World War II
«The stories in this anthology are gripping … This book will make an excellent text for courses on World War II, especially ones focusing on the social history of the conflict … Historians and social scientists seeking to document the current war in Ukraine should definitely add this work to their bookshelf.»
Journal of Family History
Expertly contextualized by two leading historians in the field, this unique collection offers 13 accounts of individual experiences of World War II from across Europe. It sees contributors describe their recent ancestors’ experiences ranging from a Royal Air Force pilot captured in Yugoslavia and a Spanish communist in the French resistance to two young Jewish girls caught in the siege of Leningrad. Les mer
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Detaljer
- Forlag
- Bloomsbury Academic
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 256
- ISBN
- 9781350201958
- Utgivelsesår
- 2021
- Format
- 23 x 16 cm
Anmeldelser
«The stories in this anthology are gripping … This book will make an excellent text for courses on World War II, especially ones focusing on the social history of the conflict … Historians and social scientists seeking to document the current war in Ukraine should definitely add this work to their bookshelf.»
Journal of Family History
«Historians have spent far too little time studying the impact of war on families through the generations. This wonderful volume fills that gap with dignity, intelligence, and compassion.»
Michael S. Neiberg, Inaugural Chair of War Studies, United States Army War College, USA
«The power of Healy and Barry’s book lies in the way the stories are told. ... the essays are moving and fascinating in equal measure, and can help the reader understand how the war impacted on individual lives in a way that traditional narrative histories often fail to achieve.»
Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine
«An interesting, unusual and often moving book. This draws on family memories of the Second World War mainly from amongst people, with many national origins, who now work at the tranquil campus of the National University of Ireland at Galway. Edited by experienced historians but written by a wide range of people (mainly but not exclusively academics),and recounting the experiences of an even wider group of people from an earlier generation, it combines the immediacy of personal experience with scholarly rigour. It will be a stimulating book for any undergraduate class as well as being a compelling work for many general readers.»
Richard Vinen, Professor of History, King's College London, UK