"Doolan's book is a groundbreaking and comprehensive study of the construction of a collective memory of decolonisation."
László Munteán , Nederlandse Letterkunde, vol. 28, Issue 1, July 2023
"Doolan’s work is the most comprehensive English language account of so many forms of Dutch remembrance of the 1945-1949 period… For scholars who do not read Dutch, his review of Dutch texts that engage with remembrance of the independence war is very useful, particularly because of the synthesis of so many diverse works."
Katherine McGregor, BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review, Vol. 138 (2023)
"[...] this is quite an impressive, courageous, and ambitious attempt to sketch the whole process of the development of collective (un)remembering. [...] a complete and detailed overview, covering all facets."
- Liesbeth Rosen Jacobson, Canadian Journal of Netherlandic Studies, Vol. 42, Iss. 1