The destructive effects of unchecked government power scar postwar British history - from the economic devastation of stagflation to the poll tax.
And Rice's second wife Phoebe seems to be the personification of postwar Britain itself: dowdy and scarred by recent experience, but a tenacious survivor nonetheless.
Scarred by their postwar existence in the shadow of the Soviet Union, most of the new members bring a different mentality and different habits.
His wartime and postwar experiences have apparently left no scars, physical or mental, and at 63 he lives in quiet semi-retirement in his hometown here, south of Stuttgart.
A 12-year-old boy flees the Maryland suburbs with two friends on a road trip through the segregated rural South of the early 1960's, and his experiences expose the hidden scars underneath the nation's postwar optimism.
Writ large, the Daewoo deal is a remarkable model of postwar relations, in which commerce salves the scars of history.
In these years of economic boom, young workers, without the scars of civil war defeat and postwar repression, poured from the countryside into the new factories.
Postwar societies, no matter how peaceful or picturesque on the surface, are inevitably complex places that still bear the scars of war, though some less overtly than others.
A recent Wall Street Journal article describes Generation Z as "...a scarred generation, cautious and hardened by economic and social turbulence," and likens the group to the Silent Generation, those born between 1928 and 1945 that carried the economic scars of the Great Depression and World War II into adulthood while reaping the rewards of a booming postwar economy.
Then came the American-led invasion to bring about "regime change," an experiment in political transformation that was scarred from the start by its shortsightedness and its lack of any kind of properly thought-out postwar reconstruction plan.
