Books for discussion

Capdevila, Luc and Danièle Voldman, War Dead. Western Societies and the Casualties of War (Edinburgh, 2006).

Harrison, Ted, Remembrance Day Today: Poppies, Grief and Heroism (London, 2012).

Paris, M., Warrior Nation: Images of War in British Popular Culture 1850-2000 (London, 2002).

Core Texts

Brueckenhaus, Daniel, ‘A European Memory?’ (manuscript).

Edkins, Trauma and the Memory of Politics, pp. 215-233. [= Chapter 6: Conclusion: The Return of the Political – the Memory of Politics]

Schleifman, Nurit, ‘Moscow's Victory Park: A Monumental Change’, History and Memory, 13 (2001), pp. 5-34. Goto JSTOR

Further Reading

Babington, Anthony, Shell-shock: a history of the changing attitudes to war neurosis (London: Leo Cooper, 1997).Ferguson, Niall, The War of the World: Twentieth Century Conflict and the Descent of the West ( New York, 2007).

Ferguson, Niall, The War of the World: Twentieth Century Conflict and the Descent of the West (New York, 2007).

Malkasian, C., A History of Modern Wars of Attrition (Westport, 2002).

Noakes, J., (ed.) The Civilian in War (London, 1992).

Pakier, M. and Bo Strath (eds.), A Euoprean Memory? Contested Histories and Politics of Remembrance (Oxford, New York 2012).

Prost, Antoine, ‘The Algerian War in French Collective Memory’, in Sivan/Winter, War and Remembrance, pp. 161-176.

Schivelbusch, W., The Culture of Defeat: On National Trauma, Mourning and Recovery ( New York, 2003).