Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History Animals in WWI Although British historians have always

Although British historians have always seen Verdun as a one-year battle designed by the German chief of staff to bleed France white

It thereby contributes to our understanding of the difficult transitions from war to peace

and Theophile Steinlen

in place for three hundred years

and sought once again to shape his region’s history

Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History Animals in WWI Although British historians have alwaysDescription 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