Disasters and heroes : on war, memory and representation / Angus Calder.

Includes bibliographical references.

Meditation on memorials -- D-Day 1994 -- The wars of Ian Hamilton Finlay-- Campaign honours : the American Revolution -- Civil War soldiers -- Britain's good war -- GIs : the American occupation of Britain 1942-1945 -- Mass-observation's war -- New Zealand women at war -- The people's peace -- Terence Rattigan's Deep Blue Sea -- The hero from Homer to now -- T.E. Lawrence's Seven pillars of wisdom -- Writing from the sky : Battle of Britain memoirs -- Mr. Wu and the colonials : the British Empire's evacuation from Crete. 1941 -- Scottish poets in the desert -- Art and war -- The new Zimbabwe writing and Chimurenga -- Verse and Bosnia -- Just a nasty kid -- Coda : Christa Wolf's Cassandra and the futureof epic.