Defeat and Memory

The legacy of defeat in war reverberates through private and collective memory and remains a sub-text in international relations and political discourse. This book examines the manner in which a series of military defeats have been understood and remembered by individuals and societies in the era of modern industrialised warfare.

Introduction; J.Macleod Defeat and Memory in Modern History; J.Horne Defeat and Foreign Rule as a Narrative of National Rebirth - The German Memory of the Napoleonic Period in the 19th and Early 20th century; C.Koller From Heroic Defeat to Mutilated Victory: the Myth of Caporetto in Fascist Italy; V.Wilcox Taboos of Defeat: Unmentionable Memories of the Franco-Prussian War in France, 1870-1914; K.Varley Religious War, German War, Total War: The Shadow of the Thirty Years' War on German War Making in the Twentieth Century; K.Cramer The Stories of Defeated Aggressors: International History, National Identity and Collective Memory after 1945; P.Finney Defeat, Due Process, and Denial: War Crimes Trials and Nationalist Revisionism in Comparative Perspective; D.Bloxham Memory of War and War Crimes: Japanese Historical Consciousness and the Tokyo Trial; M.Futamura War Veterans and Kamikaze Memorialization: A Case Study of Defeat Remembrance as Revitalization Movement; M.G.Sheftall Confederate Defeat and Cultural Expressions of Memory, 1877-1940; K.L.Cox Gallipoli to Golgotha: Remembering the Internment of the Russian White Army at Gallipoli, 1920-3; A.Shmelev The Memory of French Military Defeat at Dien Bien Phu and the Defence of French Algeria; S.Tyre The Enduring Paradigm of the 'Lost Cause': Defeat in Vietnam, the Stab-in-the Back Legend, and the Construction of a Myth; J.Kimball