Fallen Soldiers Reshaping the Memory of the World Wars

Name: Fallen Soldiers Reshaping the Memory of the World Wars
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ISBN: 9780195071399

ISBN-10: 0195071395

ISBN-13: 9780195071399

Edition: 1991 (Reprint)

Authors: George L. Mosse

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At the outbreak of the First World War, an entire generation of young men charged into battle for what they believed was a glorious cause. Over the next four years, that cause claimed the lives of some 13 million soldiers--more than twice the number killed in all the major wars from 1790 to 1914. But despite this devastating toll, the memory fostered by the belligerents was not of the grim reality of its trench warfare and battlefield carnage. Instead, the nations that fought commemorated the war's sacredness and the martyrdom of those who had died for the greater glory of the fatherland. The sanctification of war is the subject of this pioneering work by well-known European historian…

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List price: $21.99
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/12/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 7.99" wide x 5.31" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English



Acknowledgments



Introduction: a Different Kind of War



The Foundations



Volunteers in War



Building the Myth: Tangible Symbols of Death



The First World War



Youth and the War Experience



The Cult of the Fallen Soldier



The Appropriation of Nature



Process of Trivialization



The Postwar Age



The Brutalization of German Politics



Building on War



The Second World War, the Myth, and the Postwar Generation


Notes


Index