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Remnants of War
Edited by Paul Skrebels
Richard Holmes has called his method of biographical and historical research ‘footstepping’: ‘a kind of pursuit, a tracking of the physical trail of someone’s path through the past, a following of footsteps.
It’s in this spirit of footstepping that Remnants of War offers readers a collection of journeys conducted by members and guest contributors from the University of South Australia’s Narratives of War research group. All are passionate enough about their topics actually to have visited key locations around the world: the Normandy beaches and other World War 2 battlefields; the remains of Italian and German prisoner-of-war and concentration camps; Cold War icons; Australian wartime sites, both actual and virtual, in Queensland and South Australia; the tragic Mostar Bridge in Bosnia; and many more. All have discovered how important a physical connection with such sites has been to developing a clearer understanding of people and events, past and present. And all pass on, in a series of insightful and lively accounts, their experiences in making that discovery.
This volume follows Writings of War(Lythrum 2008) as the second offered by the Narratives of War research group, which brings together academics and individuals from many different fields of research and writing, and is dedicated to promoting and promulgating interdisciplinary studies of war, peace and reconciliation. The group holds symposia each year around various themes, and is about to launch an online journal which will be accessible to academic and general readers interested in following and contributing to this fascinating and increasingly popular area.
ISBN: 978 1 921013 24 9
Format: Paperback, 188 pages, 210 mm x 135 mm, illus
Price: $24.95
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