An Oral History of the Portuguese Colonial War: Conscripted Generation (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783319461939)

This oral history of ex-combatants of the Portuguese colonial war places the reader face-to-face with the men who were conscripted to fight the last and bloodiest of the West's colonial wars in Africa, namely in Angola, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau (then Portuguese Guinea), between 1961 and 1974. At the forefront of this work are the lived experiences of a wide range of Portuguese veterans, framed by broader insights about the post-war public memory of this event in Portugal. Moving away from stereotypical and polarized images of these ex-combatants, An Oral History of the Portuguese Colonial War: Conscripted Generation explores the memories and consequences of this war for these veterans and their society. Seeking to understand why Portuguese ex-combatants often feel neglected and historically unrecognised, this book presents a thorough portrait of a continually shifting - and at times paradoxical -individual and collective remembrance process.

Author: Ângela Campos
ISBN-10: 3319461931
ISBN-13: 9783319461939
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 03/06/2017
Pages: 341
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.28lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.81d