When the war was over

edited by Claire Duchen and Irene Bandhauer-Schöffmann
Leicester University Press
 9780718501808
0-7185-0180-2

Popular images of post-war women represent them welcoming home the soldiers, but this volume asks, "What happened next?"The contributors use a range of methodological approaches to encourage the reader.

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to question traditional historiography, the nature of the historical evidence, the process of memory, and the disparities between official discourse and personal narrative, and between written, visual and oral accounts.