The Great War: Myth and Memory 1852855126, 9781852855123

The First World War, with its mud and the slaughter of the trenches, is often taken as the ultimate example of the futil

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The Great War: Myth and Memory
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This is a masterful volume on remembrance and war in the twentieth century. Jay Winter locates the fascination with the

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What did war look like in the cultural imagination of 1914? Why did men in Scotland sign up to fight in unprecedented nu

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This book is the first to explore depictions of the Second World War in films made a generation later, between 1962 and

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The 1910 Revolution is still tangibly present in Mexico in the festivals that celebrate its victories, on the monuments

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An exploration of the way history, meaning, and memory have interacted in the process of transforming Harriet Tubman int

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Australia and the Great War explores both the immediate and long-term consequences of the war on this complex relationsh

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Literature is at the heart of popular understandings of the First World War in Britain, and has perpetuated a popular me

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This book makes innovative use of migrant life histories to further understanding the role of memory in the production o

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