Sites of memory, sites of mourning
Subtitle: the Great War in European cultural history
By: Jay Winter.
Series: Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918.; Memory.; Europe -- Civilization -- 20th century.; Europe -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Description: Jay Winter's powerful new 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. Using a great variety of literary, artistic, and architectural evidence, 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 1914-1918, Dr. Winter instead argues that what characterized that reaction was, rather, the attempt to interpret the Great War within traditional frames of reference. Tensions arose, inevitably.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-297) and index.