RN Documentary: The Best of Times, the Worst of Times - War and Memory

Summary:

How war influences identity and memory in both the individual and the national sense.

Website:

http://www.rnw.nl/special/en/html/040504vh.html

Tones:

Contemplative

Language:

English

Description:

In Europe the signs of remembrance of war is everywhere. Fields in France Belgium and the Netherlands are still turning up traces of the untold numbers of war dead. In this program, Prof Jay Winter from Yale University and 3 war veterans talk of how war has shaped individual and national identity and how different wars are remembered in the collective memory.

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