Nicholas Martin - Aftermath: Legacies and Memories of War in Europe, 1918-1945-1989

AFTERMATH

Legacies and Memories of War in Europe, 191819451989

NICHOLAS MARTIN
University of Birmingham, UK

TIM HAUGHTON
University of Birmingham, UK

PIERRE PURSEIGLE,
University of Warwick, UK

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Nicholas Martin, Tim Haughton and Pierre Purseigle 2014

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Aftermath : legacies and memories of war in Europe, 191819451989 / edited by Nicholas Martin, Tim Haughton and Pierre Purseigle.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4094-4428-2 (hardcover) ISBN 978-1-4094-4429-9 (ebook) ISBN 978-1-4094-7327-5 (epub) 1. EuropeHistory, Military20th century. 2. War and societyEuropeHistory20th century. 3. War and civilizationEuropeHistory20th century. I. Martin, Nicholas, 1962- II. Haughton, Timothy. III. Purseigle, Pierre.

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Pierre Purseigle

Mary Fulbrook

John Paul Newman

Geoffrey Swain

Aaron William Moore

Stephen Forcer

Tara Windsor

Martin Hurcombe

Dan Todman

Gabriela Welch

Jay Winter

Tim Haughton and Nicholas Martin

Stephen Forcer is Senior Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Birmingham. His research deals in particular with Dada and Surrealism in French literature and film. Publications include Modernist Song: The Poetry of Tristan Tzara (Legenda, 2006) and, with Emma Wagstaff, a co-edited special issue of Nottingham French Studies (2011) on the subject of the French avant-garde. His book Dada as Text, Thought and Theory is due to be published in 2015 in Legendas Research Monographs in French Studies series.

Mary Fulbrook, FBA, is Professor of German History at UCL. She has held many professional roles, including Chair of the Modern History Section of the British Academy. Her current research is on legacies of Nazi persecution among perpetrators, victims and subsequent generations, and she is directing an AHRC-funded project entitled Reverberations of War in Germany and Europe since 1945. Her recent books include Dissonant Lives: Generations and Violence through the German Dictatorships (OUP, 2011) and A Small Town near Auschwitz: Ordinary Nazis and the Holocaust (OUP, 2012).

Tim Haughton is Reader (Associate Professor) in European Politics at the University of Birmingham. His current research projects explore the dynamics of domestic politics in Slovakia, Slovenia and the Czech Republic, party politics in Europe, and the interaction between domestic and European sources of change. He edited Party Politics in Central and Eastern Europe: Does EU Membership Matter? (Routledge, 2011) and co-edits the Journal of Common Market Studies Annual Review of the European Union.

Martin Hurcombe is Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Bristol. He is the author of Novelists in Conflict: Ideology and the Absurd in the French Combat Novel of the Great War (Rodopi, 2004) and France and the Spanish Civil War: Cultural Representations of the War Next Door, 193645 (Ashgate, 2011). He is also co-editor of Sbastien Japrisot: The Art of Crime (Rodopi, 2009) and editor of the Journal of War and Culture Studies.

Nicholas Martin is Reader (Associate Professor) in European Intellectual History and Director of the Institute for German Studies at the University of Birmingham. He is Editor-in-chief of Forum for Modern Language Studies. His research interests lie in modern German intellectual history and in the cultural history of war and political violence in twentieth-century Germany. His publications include Nietzsche and Schiller: Untimely Aesthetics (OUP, 1996) as well as the edited volumes Schiller: National Poet Poet of Nations (Rodopi, 2006) and Nietzsche and the German Tradition (Peter Lang, 2003).

Aaron William Moore is Lecturer in East Asian History at the University of Manchester. His first book, Writing War: Soldiers Record the Japanese Empire (Harvard UP, 2013), examines diaries and letters by Japanese, Chinese and American soldiers during the Second World War. He is currently writing his second monograph, which concerns the diaries, letters and pictures of children and adolescents in wartime Japan, China, Britain and the USSR. He also works on prewar science fiction in North Asia.

John Paul Newman is Lecturer in Modern European History at the National University of Ireland at Maynooth. His current research interests lie in the cultural history of Yugoslavia and of the Balkan region. He has published on paramilitary violence in the Balkans after 1917, the transition of the Croat lands from a Habsburg to a Yugoslav framework, and the successes and failures of institution building in interwar Eastern Europe. He is the author of Yugoslavia in the Shadow of War: Veteran and Patriotic Associations and the Limits of South Slav State Building, 19181941 (forthcoming, CUP)

Pierre Purseigle is Associate Professor of Modern European History at the University of Warwick, former Director of the Centre for First World War Studies at the University of Birmingham, and President of the International Society for First World War Studies. He is the author of Mobilisation, Sacrifice, Citoyennet. AngleterreFrance, 19001918 (Les Belles Lettres, 2013), and Editor-in-chief of First World War Studies.

Geoffrey Swain holds the Alec Nove Chair in Russian and East European Studies at the University of Glasgow. He has published extensively on the histories of Russia, Yugoslavia and Latvia, and is currently researching Latvian memories of the Stalin years. His recent publications include Between Stalin and Hitler: Class War and Race War on the Dvina, 194046 (Routledge, 2004), Trotsky (Longman, 2006) and Tito: A Biography (I.B. Tauris, 2011).

Dan Todman is Senior Lecturer in Modern British History at Queen Mary, University of London. His research examines Britains social, cultural and military history in both world wars. His published work has focused on the remembrance of the First World War, but he is currently moving on to examine the experience and commemoration of the second total conflict of the twentieth century.

Gabriela Welch is a researcher at the Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Uppsala University. She obtained her PhD at the European University Institute in Florence, where she researched war commemorations and remembrance in Eastern Europe after the fall of the Soviet Union. Her publications include War Dead and the Restoration of Military Cemeteries,