Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History Animals in WWI helped destroy the Austro-Hungarian Empire

helped destroy the Austro-Hungarian Empire and found Czecho-Slovakia

it also incorporates less well-known writing by civilian and women poets

in place for three hundred years

particularly the clash between proponents of greater democratization and those who argued for military expansion

and tells the story of his famous three-winged airplane

Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History Animals in WWI helped destroy the Austro-Hungarian EmpireDescription by Jay Winter Paperback Jay Winter's powerful study of the 'collective remembrance' of the Great War offers a major reassessment of one of the critical episodes in the cultural history of the twentieth century. Dr Winter looks anew at the culture of commemoration and the ways in which communities endeavored to find collective solace after 1918. Taking issue with the prevailing 'modernist' interpretation of the European reaction to the