Defeat and Memory: Cultural Histories of Military Defeat in the Modern Era

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction....Pages 1-10
Defeat and Memory in Modern History....Pages 11-29
Defeat and Foreign Rule as a Narrative of National Rebirth — The German Memory of the Napoleonic Period in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries....Pages 30-45
From Heroic Defeat to Mutilated Victory: The Myth of Caporetto in Fascist Italy....Pages 46-61
The Taboos of Defeat: Unmentionable Memories of the Franco-Prussian War in France, 1870–1914....Pages 62-80
Religious War, German War, Total War: The Shadow of the Thirty Years’ War on German War Making in the Twentieth Century....Pages 81-96
The Stories of Defeated Aggressors: International History, National Identity and Collective Memory after 1945....Pages 97-116
Defeat, Due Process, and Denial: War Crimes Trials and Nationalist Revisionism in Comparative Perspective....Pages 117-136
Memory of War and War Crimes: Japanese Historical Consciousness and the Tokyo Trial....Pages 137-153
Japanese War Veterans and Kamikaze Memorialization: A Case Study of Defeat Remembrance as Revitalization Movement....Pages 154-174
Confederate Defeat and Cultural Expressions of Memory, 1877–1940....Pages 175-194
Gallipoli to Golgotha: Remembering the Internment of the Russian White Army at Gallipoli, 1920–3....Pages 195-213
The Memory of French Military Defeat at Dien Bien Phu and the Defence of French Algeria....Pages 214-232
The Enduring Paradigm of the ‘Lost Cause’: Defeat in Vietnam, the Stab-in-the-Back Legend, and the Construction of a Myth....Pages 233-250
Back Matter....Pages 251-259