Memory and Memorials

Contents: Introduction, William Kidd and Brian Murdoch; Part 1 Memorials and remembrance, 1915-30: Rodin's Bourgeois de Calais: commemorating a French national ideal in London, Axel Lapp; Making the Great War great:1914-18 war memorials in Wallonia, Laurence van Ypers¨le; Belonging to a 'grandiose' family: visual memory and representations of the chain of solidarity between the generations in French First World War culture, Marie-Monique Huss; The Scottish National War Memorial, Angus Calder; Ordeal and re-affirmation: masculinity and the construction of Scottish and English national identity in Great War memorial sculpture 1919-30, J.A. Black; Memory and prophecy among the war-graves: Hans Chlumberg's drama, Miracle at Verdun, Brian Murdoch. Part 2 Remembering and forgetting, from the Second World war to the present: 'To the lads who came back': memorial windows and Rolls of Honour in Scotland, William Kidd; War, family, commemoration: a path to history, J.-S. S©riot; Remembering and embroidering in Jean Rouaud's family cycle, Geoff Woollen; Communal myth and silenced memories: the unremembered experience of Italians in Scotland during the Second World War, Wendy Ugolini; Liberating France without the French: grammars of representation, Hilary Footitt; The victims of the purges in Liberation France: between memory, oblivion and catharsis, Fran§ois Rouquet. Part 3 Collective memory in question: challenge and reconstruction?: Memory, distortion and the war in German popular culture: the case of Konsalik, Maggie Sargeant; The problematic commemoration of war in the early films of Alan Resnais, Alastair Duncan; Pierre Drieu la Rochelle, Louis Malle and the ambiguous memory of French fascism, Hugo Frey; Occupation Memories: French history and the Aubrac Affair in the 1990s, Hanna Diamond and Claire Gorrara; Transmission of memory in the classroom: France and the Algerian war in the 1990s, Jo McCormack; From 'hereditary enmity' to Franco-German entente: shared m