Nancy Wood is Chair of Media Studies at the University of Sussex, UK.

'A rich scholarly study, efficiently footnoted, accompanied by four appropriate illustrations, and well indexed.' Choice'The essays are often interesting, notably in her comparison of the historiographical methods of the historians of the Jewish massacres, Christopher Browning and Daniel Goldhagen, in relation to the reception of their works and her essay on the role of memory in retributive justice meted out in French trials.'TLS'A significant insight into the dilemmas and contradictions of coming to terms with an unbearable past.'American Historical Review

• Memory remains - les lieux de memoire; public memory and postconventional identity; the victim's resentment; narrating perpetrator testimony; memory on trial in contemporary France; colonial nostalgia and "Le Premier Homme"; remembering the Jews of Algeria; memory by analogy - Hiroshima, mon amour.

Nancy Wood is Chair of Media Studies at the University of Sussex, UK.

'A rich scholarly study, efficiently footnoted, accompanied by four appropriate illustrations, and well indexed.' Choice'The essays are often interesting, notably in her comparison of the historiographical methods of the historians of the Jewish massacres, Christopher Browning and Daniel Goldhagen, in relation to the reception of their works and her essay on the role of memory in retributive justice meted out in French trials.'TLS'A significant insight into the dilemmas and contradictions of coming to terms with an unbearable past.'American Historical Review

• Memory remains - les lieux de memoire; public memory and postconventional identity; the victim's resentment; narrating perpetrator testimony; memory on trial in contemporary France; colonial nostalgia and "Le Premier Homme"; remembering the Jews of Algeria; memory by analogy - Hiroshima, mon amour.