Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History

Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural HistoryDescription by Jay Winter Paperback Jay Winter's powerful study of the 'collective remembrance' of the Great War offers a major reassessment of one of the critical episodes in the cultural history of the twentieth century. Dr Winter looks anew at the culture of commemoration and the ways in which communities endeavored to find collective solace after 1918. Taking issue with the prevailing 'modernist' interpretation of the European reaction to the

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