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• Publisher : Springer
• File Size : 54,9 Mb
• Release Date : 03 November 2008

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

• Publisher : JHU Press
• File Size : 40,9 Mb
• Release Date : 22 May 2003

In 404 b.c. the Peloponnesian War finally came to an end, when the Athenians, starved into submission, were forced to accept Sparta's terms of surrender. Shortly afterwards a group of

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• File Size : 39,7 Mb
• Release Date : 20 May 2024

In The Long Defeat, Akiko Hashimoto explores the stakes of war memory in Japan after its catastrophic defeat in World War II, showing how and why defeat has become an

• Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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• Release Date : 22 January 2021

It is a commonplace belief that history is written by the victorious. However, less recognised but equally common is the idea that the defeated also write history, even if their

• Publisher : Yale University Press
• File Size : 52,7 Mb
• Release Date : 01 January 2004

Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966), one of twentieth-century Russia’s greatest poets, was viewed as a dangerous element by post-Revolution authorities. One of the few unrepentant poets to survive the Bolshevik revolution and

• Publisher : Metropolitan Books
• File Size : 36,8 Mb
• Release Date : 13 August 2013

A fascinating look at history's losers-the myths they create to cope with defeat and the steps they take never to be vanquished again History may be written by the victors,

• Publisher : Princeton University Press
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• Release Date : 09 January 2012

Japan and the United States became close political allies so quickly after the end of World War II, that it seemed as though the two countries had easily forgotten the

• Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
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• Release Date : 01 March 2002

This compelling work tells the story of Anne Skorecki Levy, a Holocaust survivor who transformed the horrors of her childhood into a passionate mission to defeat the political menace of

• Publisher : Penguin
• File Size : 26,5 Mb
• Release Date : 03 March 2011

“Highly entertaining.” —Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker “Funny, curious, erudite, and full of useful details about ancient techniques of training memory.” —The Boston Globe The blockbuster phenomenon that charts an

• Publisher : McFarland
• File Size : 25,5 Mb
• Release Date : 13 October 2014

For two weeks during the spring of 1942, the Bataan Death March--one of the most widely condemned atrocities of World War II--unfolded. The prevailing interpretation of this event is simple: American