The Long Aftermath

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<p> In its totality, the Long Second World Warextending from the beginning of the Spanish Civil War to the end of hostilities in 1945has exerted enormous influence over European culture. Bringing together leading historians, sociologists, and literary and film scholars, this broadly interdisciplinary volume investigates Europeans individual and collective memories and the ways in which they have shaped the continents cultural heritage. Focusing on the major combatant nationsSpain, Britain, France, Italy, Germany, Poland, and Russiait offers thoroughly contextualized explorations of novels, memoirs, films, and a host of other cultural forms to illuminate European public memory.</p>

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<p><strong>Peter Tame</strong> is Reader in French Studies at Queens University Belfast. His principal research interests lie in the areas of war literature, literature and politics in twentieth-century France, and especially fictional representations of Fascism and Communism. His new book<em>Isotopias</em> (2015) looks at places and spaces in French war fiction of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.</p>

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