The book is worth reading for its analysis of the narratives [of prisoner-of-war returnees], which is on the whole quite successful. The service it provides is in its at least partial reconstruction . . . of the complex formation of memory.
FRANCA-RECENSIO
Wienand argues that returnees constitute an ongoing and recurring issue, and aims to demonstrate that individual ... Read moreand collective memory intersect at multiple points and are in?uenced by concurrent interpretations of the past. . . . [H]er work deserves praise for providing extensive empirical evidence to support her argument. . . . She undertakes the daunting task of documenting how narratives by and about the returnees intersect at an individual, local, and national level, from the postwar era up until today.
MONATSHEFTE
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