Defeat and Memory

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Defeat and Memory in Modern History

Chapter 3 Defeat and Foreign Rule as a Narrative of National Rebirth — The German Memory of the Napoleonic Period in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

Chapter 4 From Heroic Defeat to Mutilated Victory: The Myth of Caporetto in Fascist Italy

Chapter 5 The Taboos of Defeat: Unmentionable Memories of the Franco-Prussian War in France, 1870–1914

Chapter 6 Religious War, German War, Total War: The Shadow of the Thirty Years’ War on German War Making in the Twentieth Century

Chapter 7 The Stories of Defeated Aggressors: International History, National Identity and Collective Memory after 1945

Chapter 8 Defeat, Due Process, and Denial: War Crimes Trials and Nationalist Revisionism in Comparative Perspective

Chapter 9 Memory of War and War Crimes: Japanese Historical Consciousness and the Tokyo Trial

Chapter 10 Japanese War Veterans and Kamikaze Memorialization: A Case Study of Defeat Remembrance as Revitalization Movement

Chapter 11 Confederate Defeat and Cultural Expressions of Memory, 1877–1940

Chapter 12 Gallipoli to Golgotha: Remembering the Internment of the Russian White Army at Gallipoli, 1920–3

Chapter 13 The Memory of French Military Defeat at Dien Bien Phu and the Defence of French Algeria

Chapter 14 The Enduring Paradigm of the ‘Lost Cause’: Defeat in Vietnam, the Stab-in-the-Back Legend, and the Construction of a Myth