The Lasting War : Society and Identity in Britain, France and Germany After 1945

The Second World War brought suffering and trauma to the people of Europe on an unprecedented scale. While Europeans were not strangers to the harsh realities of international conflict, World War II galvanized a new range of destructive forces that shook the continent to its intellectual, psychological and material foundations. This volume addresses World War II as a common European trauma by focusing on key trans-national developments and comparing the different wars as experienced by three similar civilian populations.