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Oct 5, 2024 · Decorated war heroes; Military heroes Definition War heroes are military combatants who are recognized for taking actions to protect or res-cue others at significant risk to their own life or safety. Individuals are often designated as war heroes by the awarding of a high-level mark of distinction conferred by a respected authority.
An effective course needs to encourage students to move beyond the narrow ‘debunking’ approach to heroes frequently adopted in popular biographies and television documentaries, and situate the heroes of the past in a broader historical context.
rage about the appropriateness of monuments to supposed war heroes in our civic squares, this authoritative and engaging book suggests that how the Spartans commemorated their military past, and how
What Makes a Hero? Studying Heroes in WWII The National WWII Museum honors the heroes of World War II by celebrating their deeds and honoring the values that they carried with them into the struggle. Whether on the battlefield or on the Home Front, heroes were in no short supply during the war. However, war is not the only place we find heroes ...
From the Napoleonic Wars onward, the cult of war heroes was fundamental in establishing and preserving modern nation-states and their all-male conscription armies. Real and imagined war heroes served as cornerstones of national mythologies and
- Ville Kivimäki
World War. Although not ‘homes for heroes’ and these pre-date the concept of council houses, this was the first housing estate to be built after World War I. Image courtesy of Bristol Record Office (40826-HSG-138-001).
Heroes represent ‘sites of memory’, no less than battlefields, monuments or texts, and are invested with meanings just as revelatory about the culture which constructs and represents them.4 They are the quintessential necessary ‘fictions’ of warfare.
