Manuel Bragança is Assistant Professor in French Studies in the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics at University College Dublin, Ireland, where he is also a member of the Centre for War Studies and of the Humanities Institute. His research interests focus on the historiography and memories of the Second World War in France and Europe. He is an editor of the online research platform H-France and an assistant editor of the journal Open Cultural Studies.

“The chapters confirm that individual and collective memory often wields great influence when framed by culture and history. Within academic circles focusing upon this aspect of cultural history and memory, this collection of essays is highly valuable… The academics in this volume are well placed to make a significant contribution to the ambitions [of forging a cohesive European sense of history] and to help frame Europe’s sense of its long and troubled history during the latter twentieth century, and how it is perceived in this new century.” • War in History“Manuel Braganca and Peter Tame have compiled a highly stimulating volume of essays, which whets the appetite for more.” • Journal of European Studies“This is a useful and interesting book, consistently lucid in style and approach, that addresses a gap in the existing scholarship. Beyond the quality and interest of its individual chapters, its scope helps to make it particularly revealing and valuable.” • Marina Mackay, St. Peter’s College, University of Oxford“This accomplished volume offers the opportunity to reflect comparatively on the different historical trajectories and cultural stories of seven European nations grappling with the long aftermath of the Second World War. Among its innovations are its combination of historiographical research with analysis of cultural representations, its challenge to a sharply delineated East-West nexus of war memory and scholarship, and its focus on popular culture.” • Claire Gorrara, Cardiff University“One of the strengths of this well-organized collection is its range, covering East and West Europe, and Allied and Axis countries. In addition to the obvious cultural and political contrasts, this allows many intriguing parallels to emerge.” • Margaret Atack, University of Leeds

• List of Illustrations    AcknowledgementsForeword: Between World Wars: Remembering War in Europe before 1945Richard OveryIntroduction: The Long Aftermath of the Long Second World WarManuel Bragança and Peter TamePART I: SPAINChapter 1. Violence and the History and Memory of the Spanish Civil War: Beyond the Crisis of Inherited Narrative FrameworksPablo Sánchez LeónChapter 2. Poetry and Silence in Post-Civil War Spain: Carmen Conde, Lucía Sánchez Saornil and Pilar de ValderramaJean AndrewsChapter 3. On Civil-War Memory in Spanish Women’s Narratives: The Example of Cristina Fernández Cubas’ Cosas que ya no existenAlison Ribeiro de MenezesPART II: THE UNITED KINGDOMChapter 4. Narrating Britain’s War: A ‘Four Nations and More’ Approach to the People’s WarDaniel Travers and Paul WardChapter 5. ‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’: the Representation of Germans in British Second World War FilmsRobert MurphyChapter 6. Memory and Nation in British Narratives of the Second World War after 1945Mark RawlinsonPART III: FRANCEChapter 7. A Capital Problem: The Town of Vichy, the Second World War, and the Politics of IdentityKirrily FreemanChapter 8. Tracking the Past in the Places and Spaces of Patrick Modiano’s Early FictionPeter TameChapter 9. Vercors and the Second World WarCristina Solé-CastellsPART IV: GERMANYChapter 10. Reconstructing D-Day Memory: How Contemporary Politics made Germans Victims of the WarHarold J. GoldbergChapter 11. Memories of World War II in German Film after 1945Christiane SchönfeldChapter 12. Ilse Aichinger’s Novel The Greater Hope. Poetic Narrative to Deal with TraumaMarko PajevićPART V: ITALYChapter 13. Victimhood Asserted: Italian Memories of World War IIRichard J. B. BosworthChapter 14. Re-picturing the Myth: American Characters in Post-War Popular Italian CinemaDaniela Treveri GennariChapter 15. Italian Resistance Writing in the Years of the ‘Second Republic’Philip CookePART VI: POLANDChapter 16. The Second World War in Present-Day Polish Memory and PoliticsAndrzej PaczkowskiChapter 17. Wounded Memory. Rhetorical Strategies Used in Public Discourse on the Katyń MassacreUrszula JareckaChapter 18. The Second World War in Recent Polish Counterfactual and Alternative (Hi)storiesMarzena Sokołowska-ParyżPART VII: USSR / RUSSIAChapter 19. History Politics and the Changing Meaning of Victory Day in Contemporary RussiaMarkku KangaspuroChapter 20. War and Patriotism: Russian War Films and the Lessons for TodayDavid GillespieChapter 21. Russian Fiction at WarGreg CarletonAfterword: Memories of War: From the Sacred to the SecularJay WinterIndex