Remembering War: The Great War between Memory and History in the 20th Century
This is a masterful volume on remembrance and war in the twentieth century. Jay Winter locates the fascination with the subject of memory within a long-term trajectory that focuses on the Great War. Images, languages, and practices that appeared during and after the two world wars focused on the need to acknowledge the victims of war and shaped the ways in which future conflicts were imagined and remembered. At the core of the “memory boom” is an array of collective meditations on war and the...
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This is a masterful volume on remembrance and war in the twentieth century. Jay Winter locates the fascination with the subject of memory within a long-term trajectory that focuses on the Great War. Images, languages, and practices that appeared during and after the two world wars focused on the need to acknowledge the victims of war and shaped the ways in which future conflicts were imagined and remembered. At the core of the “memory boom” is an array of collective meditations on war and the victims of war, Winter says.The book begins by tracing the origins of contemporary interest in memory, then describes practices of remembrance that have linked history and memory, particularly in the first half of the twentieth century. The author also considers “theaters of memory”—film, television, museums, and war crimes trials in which the past is seen through public representations of memories. The book concludes with reflections on the significance of these practices for the cultural history of the twentieth century as a whole.
Introduction : war, memory, remembrance1Ch. 1The setting : the Great War in the memory boom of the twentieth century17Ch. 2Shell shock, memory, and identity52Ch. 3All quiet on the eastern front : photography and remembrance79Ch. 4War letters : cultural memory and the "soldiers' tale" of the Great War103Ch. 5Ironies of war : intellectual styles and responses to the Great War in Britain and France118Ch. 6War memorials : a social agency interpretation135Ch. 7War, migration, and remembrance : Britain and her dominions154Ch. 8Grand illusions : war, film, and collective memory183Ch. 9Between history and memory : television, public history, and historical scholarship201Ch. 10War museums : the Historial and historical scholarship222Ch. 11"Witness to a time" : authority, experience, and the two World Wars238Ch. 12Controversies and conclusions275
\ John Horne"In a characteristically vigorous and insightful manner, Jay Winter takes up one of the most influential issues of contemporary cultural comment and academic debate—memory and its relationship with history. The result is highly original and the fruit of thirty years' reflection on the subject. This book will stand alone as the contribution by a leading historian of the Great War to the field."—John Horne, Trinity College, Dublin\ \
