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America's National Cemeteries

A Meditation on History, Memory, and Place

University of Alabama Press
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The Lost Cause and the Great War

Progressive Reform and Patriotism in the American South

University of Alabama Press

How Tennessee reformers reconciled Southern heritage with rising nationalism, weaving the Lost Cause into the fabric of American progress and identity

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Echoes of Exile

A Family’s Odyssey through the Holocaust and Cold War

University of Alabama Press

In “Echoes of Exile,” Daniela Spenser weaves together a history of Europe’s calamitous 20th century conflicts—the Holocaust, Communism, the Cold War—by tracing those events in the lives of her parents and grandparents of Czech, Polish, and German descent. Enhancing and humanizing extensive archival research with interviews and hundreds of personal letters, Echoes of Exile brings complex political history to vivid life in the story of one family's struggle to survive.

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Echoes of Exile

A Family's Odyssey through the Holocaust and Cold War

University of Alabama Press

In “Echoes of Exile,” Daniela Spenser weaves together a history of Europe’s calamitous 20th century conflicts—the Holocaust, Communism, the Cold War—by tracing those events in the lives of her parents and grandparents of Czech, Polish, and German descent. Enhancing and humanizing extensive archival research with interviews and hundreds of personal letters, Echoes of Exile brings complex political history to vivid life in the story of one family's struggle to survive.

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Patton's Shadow

The Making of a Hero in Modern Memory

University of Alabama Press

General George S. Patton’s legendary image was carefully crafted during World War II and continues to shape our understanding of American history and culture today. Historian Nathan C. Jones explores the creation of the Patton legend and its enduring legacy in Patton’s Shadow.

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Tattered Kimonos in Japan

Remaking Lives from Memories of World War II

University of Alabama Press

Examines Japan’s war generation—Japanese men and women who survived World War Two and rebuilt their lives, into the 21st century, from memories of that conflict

 

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Forgotten Veterans, Invisible Memorials

How American Women Commemorated the Great War, 1917–1945

University of Alabama Press

Investigates the groundbreaking role American women played in commemorating those who served and sacrificed in World War I

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Dixie's Great War

World War I and the American South

Edited by John Giggie and Andrew Huebner; Afterword by Jay M. Winter
University of Alabama Press

Examining the First World War through the lens of the American South

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Portraits of Remembrance

Painting, Memory, and the First World War

Edited by Margaret Hutchison and Steven Trout; Afterword by Jay M. Winter
University of Alabama Press

Interdisciplinary collection of essays on fine art painting as it relates to the First World War and commemoration of the conflict

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War and Public Memory

Case Studies in Twentieth-Century Europe

University of Alabama Press

An introduction to key issues in the study of war and memory that examines significant conflicts in twentieth-century Europe

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The Battle over Peleliu

Islander, Japanese, and American Memories of War

University of Alabama Press

An ethnographic and historical account of the commercial, cultural, and military encroachment by Japan and the United States on the island nation of Palau

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Triumph of the Dead

American World War II Cemeteries, Monuments, and Diplomacy in France

University of Alabama Press

An investigation into the relationship between history, art, architecture, memory, and diplomacy

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Points of Honor

Short Stories of the Great War by a US Combat Marine

By Thomas Boyd; Edited by Steven Trout; Introduction by Steven Trout
University of Alabama Press

A masterwork of World War I short stories portraying the experiences of Marines in battle.

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