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 endeavoured to find collective solace after 1918.
Taking issue with the prevailing 'modernist' interpretation of the
European reaction to the appalling events of 1914–18, Dr Winter
instead argues that what characterised that reaction was, rather,
the attempt to interpret the Great War within traditional frames of
reference. Tensions arose inevitably. Sites of Memory, Sites of
Mourning is a profound and moving book of seminal importance for
the attempt to understand the course of European history during the
first half of the twentieth century.
· Accessible study of the Great War and its social and personal
toll · Sold over 2,800 in first-time paperback edition · Of
interest to World War I enthusiasts and the general reader
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