Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History (Canto Classics)

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.

• The Great War and Modern Memory
• The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
• The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme
• Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
• To Hell and Back: Europe 1914-1949 (The Penguin History of Europe)
• Homage to Catalonia
• Empire of Cotton: A Global History
• The First World War: A Very Short Introduction
• Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
• Fallen Soldiers: Reshaping the Memory of the World Wars