A Conspicuous Absence: Combat Veterans and America’s Memory of WWII

For almost thirty years following the end of the Second World War, very few first-person narratives of the war by combat veterans were published in America, and, as a result, those veterans’ traumatic experiences failed to inform the national memory of the conflict. A number of cultural influences c...

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Main Author: Robert Blaskiewicz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Bucharest 2019-12-01
Series:Intersections
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Online Access:https://intersections-journal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/1.-RB-article-1.pdf