Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History Animals in WWI in place for three hundred

in place for three hundred years

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

helped destroy the Austro-Hungarian Empire and found Czecho-Slovakia

The number of soldiers wounded in World War I is

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 in place for three hundredDescription 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