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In the vast literature on how the Second World War has been remembered in Europe, research into what happened in communist Poland, a country most affected by the war, is surprisingly scarce. The long gestation of Polish narratives of heroism and sacrifice, explored in this book, might help to understand why the country still finds itself in a «mnemonic standoff» with Western Europe, which tends to favour imagining the war in a civil, post-Holocaust, human rights-oriented way. The specific focus
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- Author
- Wawrzyniak, Joanna; Lewis, Simon
- Publisher
- Peter Lang Edition
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9783653024418
- Category
- psychology
- Subjects
- Anthropology, History, Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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