Defeat and Memory Cultural Histories of

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.

Preface	p. vii
Notes on Contributors	p. viii
Introduction	p. 1
Defeat and Memory in Modern History	p. 11
Temporary Defeat
Defeat and Foreign Rule as a Narrative of National Rebirth - The German Memory of the Napoleonic Period in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries	p. 30
From Heroic Defeat to Mutilated Victory: The Myth of Caporetto in Fascist Italy	p. 46
Definitive Defeat
The Taboos of Defeat: Unmentionable Memories of the Franco-Prussian War in France, 1870-1914	p. 62
Total Defeat
Religious War, German War, Total War: The Shadow of the Thirty Years' War on German War Making in the Twentieth Century	p. 81
The Stories of Defeated Aggressors: International History, National Identity and Collective Memory after 1945	p. 97
Defeat, Due Process, and Denial: War Crimes Trials and Nationalist Revisionism in Comparative Perspective	p. 117
Memory of War and War Crimes: Japanese Historical Consciousness and the Tokyo Trial	p. 137
Japanese War Veterans and Kamikaze Memorialization: A Case Study of Defeat Remembrance as Revitalization Movement	p. 154
Internal Defeat
Confederate Defeat and Cultural Expressions of Memory, 1877-1940	p. 175
Gallipoli to Golgotha: Remembering the Internment of the Russian White Army at Gallipoli, 1920-3	p. 195
Partial Defeat
The Memory of French Military Defeat at Dien Bien Phu and the Defence of French Algeria	p. 214
The Enduring Paradigm of the 'Lost Cause': Defeat in Vietnam, the Stab-in-the-Back Legend, and the Construction of a Myth	p. 233
Index	p. 251
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Defeat and Memory Cultural Histories of Military Defeat Since 1815

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