Archives of Memory: A Soldier Recalls World War II - Hardcover

Hoffman, Alice M.; Hoffman, Howard S.

9780813117188: Archives of Memory: A Soldier Recalls World War II

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ISBN 10: 0813117186 ISBN 13: 9780813117188

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky, 1990

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Book by Hoffman, Alice M., Hoffman, Howard S.

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Alice Hoffman, a historian, initiated the study because she recognized the critical role of memory in gathering oral history; Howard Hoffman, the subject, is an experimental psychologist. Alice's tape recorded interviews with her husband over a period of ten years are the basic material of the study, which compares the events as recounted in the first phase of the interviews with later accounts of the same experiences and with the written records of his company as well as the memories of fellow soldiers and the evidence of photographs and other documents. This engrossing story of World War II breaks new ground for practitioners of oral history.

Review:

"If you are an oral historian who enjoys war stories, you will take up this book without hesitation; if you don't enjoy them, you should persist anyway."―Oral History Review

"A significant work in oral history. This book will help those who collect and use oral histories understand how and what people remember."―American Historical Review

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