Media, Memory, and the First World War Roaring Twenties On the home front

On the home front

and the rise of revolutionary socialism

From the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo to the Treaty of Versailles we see for ourselves what life was like in the trenches

by Alexander Barnes

Media, Memory, and the First World War Roaring Twenties On the home frontDescription by David Williams Paperback Why does the Great War seem part of modern memory when its rituals of mourning and remembrance were traditional, romantic, even classical? In this highly original history of memory, David Williams shows how classic Great War literature, including work by Remarque, Owen, Sassoon, and Harrison, was symptomatic of a cultural crisis brought on by the advent of cinema. He argues that images from Geoffrey Malins'