| Description |
xiv, 187 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, map, portraits ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
1. Playing in the wreckage : a family visit to the site of D-Day and other WW2 battlefields / Peter Bishop--2. Follies, furphies and figitives : Dan Billany and the Italian prisioner of war at Rezzanello and Fontanellato / Paul Skrebels--3. Putting away childish things : the realities of conflict / Nigel Starck.--4. 'We're not German' : how Austria marks the Nazi years / Sue Page.--5. Power in paradise : how Queensland's north opposed the Japanese advance / Kerry Green.--6. Biography of the Dinkums - men of the Mitcham Camp / Claire Woods.--7. Counting on archives / William Park and John Cokley.--8. Viridian : Mostar 2004 / Richard Chew |
| Summary |
Remnants of War offers readers a collection of journeys conducted by members and guest contributors from the University of South Australia's Narratives of War research group. All are passionate enough about their topics actually to have visited key locations around the world: the Normandy beaches and other World War 2 battlefields; the remains of Italian and German prisoner-of-war and concentration camps; Cold War icons; Australian wartime sites, both actual and virtual, in Queensland and South Australia; the tragic Mostar Bridge in Bosnia; and many more. All have discovered how important a physical connection with such sites has been to developing a clearer understanding of people and events, past and present. And all pass on, in a series of insightful and lively accounts, their experiences in making that discovery |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
War and society -- Research.
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Battlefields -- Research.
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Military geography -- Research.
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Military history -- Research.
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Pilgrims and pilgrimage
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| Author |
Bishop, Peter, 1946-
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Skrebels, Paul.
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University of South Australia.
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| ISBN |
9781921013249 |
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