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Remembering the Road to World War Two : International History, National Identity, Collective Memory

This book is a comparative study covering seven national cases. In each case, building on an extensive grounding in historical theory, it brings into conversation three different literatures: the historiography of the origins of the Second World War; work on evolving discourses of national identity; and writing on the national collective memory of the war. These three literatures are each very extensive, and the academic investment entailed in mastering them, and then bringing them into dialogue in a tightly-controlled comparison across seven cases was very considerable. Leading reviewers have commended it as a ‘vast transnational comparison’ with a ‘massive’ bibliography.