Jay Winter Livres

The Cambridge History of the First World War is a comprehensive, three-volume work which provides an authoritative account of the military, political, social, economic, and cultural history of the Great War. Reflecting the very latest research in the field, the volumes provide a comprehensive guide to the course of the war and of how the dynamics of conflict unfolded throughout the world. Volume I surveys the military history showing the brutal realities of a global war among industrialized powers. Volumes II and III explore the social, economic, cultural, and political challenges that the war presented to politicians, industrialists, soldiers, and civilians

Introduction; Part I. Vectors of Memory: 1. Configuring war; 2. Photographing war; 3. Filming war; 4. Writing war; Part II. Frameworks of Memory: 5. Memory and the sacred: martyrdom in the twentieth century and beyond; 6. The geometry of memory: horizontality and war memorials in the twentieth century and after; 7. War beyond words: shell shock, silence, and memories of war; Conclusion.