D-Day in History and Memory: The Normandy Landings in International Remembrance and Commemoration

Over the past seventy years, the Allied invasion of Northwestern France in June 1944, known as D-Day, has come to stand as something more than a major battle. This book examines the commonalities and differences in national collective memories of D-Day.

About the Author :
MICHAEL DOLSKI is a historian with the US Joint Prisoner of War--Missing in Action Accounting Command's Central Identification Laboratory in Hawaii. SAM EDWARDS is a lecturer in American History at Manchester Metropolitan University. JOHN BUCKLEY is a professor of military history at the University of Wolverhampton.

Review :
"This collection takes readers into how an 'event' becomes many events: central to the canonical American narrative about 'The Great Crusade, ' engaged with mixed feelings by the French, and almost completely written out of the Russian narrative of the war, for example. The research is first rate; chapters are articulate, revelatory, and the whole is most impressive."--Edward T. Linenthal, author of "Sacred Ground: Americans and Their Battlefields" and co-editor of "History Wars: The Enola Gay and Other Battles for the American Past" "This is a superb volume. Collectively this work underscores the divergent national interpretations given to D-Day and the shifting memories of this conflict over time. The impressive introduction and conclusion tie these essays together, all of which are well-crafted--analytical while still accessible to a general reader and undergraduate student."--G. Kurt Piehler, author of "Remembering War the American Way" and co-editor of "Major Problems in American Military History" "This collection of essays brings together entirely new, and vitally important, perspectives on D-Day. The Normandy landings are a much mythologized event which this collection analyzes and deconstructs excellently. Multiple national viewpoints are brought together showing the complexity of the popular memory of D-Day. The editors and contributors are to be congratulated for providing a collection which both deconstructs and challenges fundamentally the dominant Anglophone narrative of D-Day."--Mark Connelly, University of Kent, author of "We Can Take It! Britain and the Memory of the Second World War"