Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History Animals in WWI and Theophile Steinlen

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It thereby contributes to our understanding of the difficult transitions from war to peace

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

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Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History Animals in WWI and Theophile SteinlenDescription 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