The Construction of Memory in Interwar France

by Daniel J. Sherman

Book Overview

One of the bloodiest conflicts in human history, World War I devastated France, leaving behind battlefields littered with the remains of the dead. Daniel Sherman takes a close look at the human impact of this Great War by examining the ways in which the French remembered their veterans and war dead after the armistice. Arguing that memory is more than just a record of experience, Sherman's cultural history offers a radically new perspective on how...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226752852
• ISBN13: 9780226752853
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 2.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.4" x 10.2"