On military memoirs : : a quantitative comparison of international Afghanistan War autobiographies, 2001-2010 / / by L.H.E. (Esmeralda) Kleinreesink.

• Superior document: Egodocuments and History Series, Volume 10
• VerfasserIn: Kleinreesink, Esmeralda,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2017.; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Egodocuments and history series ; Volume 10.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (402 pages) :; illustrations, charts, tables.

Winner of the Caforio prize for the best book in armed forces and civil-military relations published between 2015 and 2016 In On Military Memoirs Esmeralda Kleinreesink offers insight into military books: who were their writers and publishers, what were their plots, and what motives did their authors have for writing them. Every Afghanistan war autobiography published in the US, the UK, Germany, Canada and the Netherlands between 2001 and 2010 is compared quantitatively and qualitatively. On Military Memoirs shows that soldier-authors are a special breed; that self-published books still cater to different markets than traditionally published ones; that cultural differences are clearly visible between warrior nations and non-warrior nations; that not every contemporary memoir is a disillusionment story; and that writing is serious business for soldiers wanting to change the world. The book provides an innovative example of how to use interdisciplinary, mixed-method, cross-cultural research to analyse egodocuments.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction: Who, What and Why -- Theory: Egodocuments and the Military -- Methodology: Quantitative and Qualitative Methods for Autobiographical Research -- Context: The Missions in Afghanistan -- Who Writes and Publishes Soldiers’ Stories? -- Who Writes and Publishes Soldiers’ Stories? -- Why Do Soldier-Authors Write? -- Conclusion: Profiling the Soldier-Author -- Reflections: Some Personal Notes on How to Proceed -- The Fifty-Four Books -- Appendices -- References -- Author Index -- Subject Index.