‘This book provides original insights into the intersections of war, the military, subjectivity and identity in relation to memory, that reveal a much deeper understanding of the complex processes of remembering.’
– Anna Reading, Kings College, University of London, UK
‘Sarah Maltby, in this strikingly original study, brings a rare immediacy to how the media performs and the uses to which it is put in the crafting of national meaning and memory.’
– James Aulich, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
'Maltby contributes an innovative, multi-faceted and thoughtful memory framework to a highly mediated war (its representation and commemoration) without losing sight of the memories of ‘the person’ as an important inheritor of mediated memories.’
– Joanne Garde Hansen, University of Warwick, UK
‘Sarah Maltby’s insightful analysis adds an important dimension to our collective understanding of a conflict whose profound political and cultural significance comes more and more into focus as the events themselves fade into the historical distance.’
– Kevin Foster, Monash University, Australia
‘Sarah Maltby provides a sophisticated discussion of the questions of power, agency and identity that arise from convergent and divergent forms of collective memory.’
– Michael Pickering, Loughborough University, UK
‘This book provides a fascinating insight into how collective and institutional identities are imagined and contested, performed and disrupted in practices of remembering.’
– Phil Hammond, London South Bank University, UK
