Book contents
- The Veterans' Tale
- Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
- The Veterans' Tale
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Motive and the Veteran-Memoirist
- 2 Penning and Publishing the Veteran's Tale
- 3 Landscape, Nature, and Battlefields
- 4 Machines, Weapons, and Protagonists
- 5 ‘Distance’, Killing, and the Enemy
- 6 Comradeship, Leadership, and Martial Fraternity
- 7 Selfhood and Coming of Age in Veteran Memoir
- 8 History, Cultural Memory, and the Veteran-Memoirist
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
7 - Selfhood and Coming of Age in Veteran Memoir
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 December 2018
- The Veterans' Tale
- Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
- The Veterans' Tale
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Motive and the Veteran-Memoirist
- 2 Penning and Publishing the Veteran's Tale
- 3 Landscape, Nature, and Battlefields
- 4 Machines, Weapons, and Protagonists
- 5 ‘Distance’, Killing, and the Enemy
- 6 Comradeship, Leadership, and Martial Fraternity
- 7 Selfhood and Coming of Age in Veteran Memoir
- 8 History, Cultural Memory, and the Veteran-Memoirist
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
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- The Veterans' TaleBritish Military Memoirs of the Second World War, pp. 205 - 244Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019