ABSTRACT
A focus on sound in war provides an opportunity to explore what Mark Smith has described as the total experience of war through the senses. This chapter explores how the auditory provides a framework for understanding how war was experienced and was embedded in everyday life. In the accounts of the Dresden bombings and soundscape of occupied Paris, a narrative of the history of wars and how they have been remembered through sound adds a hitherto unexplored dimension to histories of sound and the enduring legacy of sound in traumatic war experiences. A focus on sound in war provides an opportunity to explore what Mark Smith has described as the total experience of war through the senses. Sounds seem to become lodged in memories of war in ways in which often the mayhem and chaos of the visual does not allow, or the details of which are often forgotten.
