The War Complex: World War II in Our Time

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The War Complex: World War II in Our Time
University Of Chicago Press; 1 edition (May 1, 2005) | ISBN: 0226808556 | 224 pages | PDF | 1.6 MB

The recent dedication of the World War II memorial and the sixtieth-anniversary commemoration of D-Day remind us of the hold that World War II still has over America's sense of itself. But the selective process of memory has radically shaped our picture of the conflict. Why else, for instance, was a 1995 Smithsonian exhibition on Hiroshima that was to include photographs of the first atomic bomb victims, along with their testimonials, considered so controversial? And why do we so readily remember the civilian bombings of Britain but not those of Dresden, Hamburg, and Tokyo?

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