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| 1 | Introduction | 1 |
| 2 | Remembering the English Civil Wars | 19 |
| 3 | 'Diabolical design' : the Charleston elite, the 1822 slave insurrection, and the discourse of the supernatural | 31 |
| 4 | Memory and the commemoration of the Great Irish Famine | 46 |
| 5 | 'The greatest and the worst' : dominant and subaltern memories of the Dos Bocas well fire of 1908 | 65 |
| 6 | The Titanic and the commodification of catastrophe | 79 |
| 7 | Doctors and trauma in the First World War : the response of British military psychiatrists | 91 |
| 8 | Commemorations of the siege of Leningrad : a catastrophe in memory and myth | 106 |
| 9 | The missing camps of Aktion Reinhard : the judicial displacement of a mass murder | 118 |
| 10 | Memory and authenticity : the case of Binjamin Wilkomirski | 132 |
| 11 | Partition memory and multiple identities in the Champaran district of Bihar, India | 147 |
| 12 | Bodies do count : American nurses mourn the catastrophe of Vietnam | 158 |
| 13 | 'Not much of a place anymore' : the reception and memory of the massacre at My Lai | 171 |
| 14 | Remembering Vukovar, forgetting Vukovar : constructing national identity through the memory of catastrophe in Croatia | 190 |
| 15 | Who do you think you are kidding, Mr. Sawoniuk? : British memory of the Holocaust and Kosovo, spring 1999 | 205 |
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Dylan Ashe
reviewed Memory of Catastrophe on August 29, 2017
Memory of Catastrophe
This short, 74 page volume, was originally presented as a series of lectures on the BBC. Ultimately disappointing: perhaps because the transcript of a series of lectures written to be heard cannot serve as well as a series of essays written to be read.
Keegan is an esteemed writer of military history. I was awed by his history of World War One. Here he tries, with some success, to discuss why war happens. He expounds on the most prevalent theories and comes to the conclusion that nobody really knows.
The last Chapter, "War and the Individual", is the most compelling and left me both frightened and hopeful.
I was left pondering, not only the nature of war but also the nature of humankind. A worthwhile exercise, I believe.
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