An Oral History of the Portuguese Colonial War: Conscripted Generation

By Angela Campos

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319834657
• ISBN13: 9783319834658
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 341 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"