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  • ISBN 9781350201958
  • Weight: 357g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 232mm
  • Publication Date: 04 Nov 2021
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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Expertly contextualized by two leading historians in the field, this unique collection offers 13 accounts of individual experiences of World War II from across Europe. It sees contributors describe their recent ancestors’ experiences ranging from a Royal Air Force pilot captured in Yugoslavia and a Spanish communist in the French resistance to two young Jewish girls caught in the siege of Leningrad. Contributors draw upon a variety of sources, such as contemporary diaries and letters, unpublished postwar memoirs, video footage as well as conversations in the family setting. These chapters attest to the enormous impact that war stories of family members had on subsequent generations. The story of a father who survived Nazi captivity became a lesson in resilience for a daughter with personal difficulties, whereas the story of a grandfather who served the Nazis became a burden that divided the family. At its heart, Family Histories of World War II concerns human experiences in supremely difficult times and their meaning for subsequent generations.
About

Róisín Healy is Senior Lecturer in European History at NUI Galway, Ireland. She is the author of Poland in the Irish Nationalist Imagination, 1772–1922 (2017) and The Jesuit Specter in Imperial Germany (2003). She has also edited or co-edited four books, including Small Nations and Colonial Peripheries in World War I (2016; as co-editor) and 1916 in Global Context: An anti-Imperial moment (2017; as co-editor).

Gearóid Barry is Lecturer in European History at NUI Galway, Ireland. He is the author of The Disarmament of Hatred: Marc Sangnier, French Catholicism and the Legacy of the First World War, 1914-45 (2012). He is also the co-editor, along with Enrico Dal Lago and Róisín Healy, of Small Nations and Colonial Peripheries in World War I (2016) and 1916 in Global Context: An anti-Imperial moment (2017).