Pilgrimages to the Western Front of World War I

Heather A. Warfield is a Full Professor at Antioch University and a specialist of pilgrimage studies, with research focused on the psychology of pilgrimages. She is the series editor of Pilgrimage Studies (Peter Lang) and editor of the 2023 volume MultidisciplinaryPerspectives on Pilgrimage: Historical, Current and Future Directions. In addition to academic publications, she has written articles about contemporary battlefield pilgrimages for US military publications and serves as a battlefield pilgrimage expert for military staff rides and other related educational programs.Stéphane Michonneau is a Full Professor at the University of Paris-Est Créteil. He has worked on contemporary Spain and, more generally, on the relationship between memory and history in the context of the formation of European nationalisms. He is particularly interested in War Studies and the links between history and narratives. He has recently published, Franco. Le temps et la légende (Paris, Flammarion, 2025), Belchite, villagefantôme de la Guerre d’Espagne (Paris, CNRS Éditions, 2020) and Un récit mémorable (Paris, Presses de la Sorbonne, 2017).Franck Viltart is an historian and specialist of remembrance practices, war heritage, remembrance tourism and war museography. He is Head of the Mission Patrimoine de la Première Guerre mondiale for the transnational (France-Belgium) serial property of Funerary and memory sites of the First World War (Western Front), inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List in 2023.

• English Introduction - WARFIELD, MICHONNEAU, VILTART French Introduction - WARFIELD, MICHONNEAU, VILTART Chapter 1: Revenir à Verdun. Les significations du pèlerinage de Jean Norton Cru - GILLES Chapter 2: Three Rude Crosses: Reflections on the Jerome Family Pilgrimage to France, 1919 - MACALUSO Chapter 3: Des voyages sur le front empêchés aux voyages encadrés : les Allemands sur le front Ouest - JULIEN Chapter 4: Leurs Frères Sont Nos Frères - TAUB Chapter 5: Du vestige de guerre au lieu de pèlerinage : la Caverne du Dragon sur le Chemin des Dames (1918-1945) - VILTART Chapter 6: Le Hartmannswillerkopf, une mise en mémoire à la française ? - HENSEL Chapter 7: When the Last Man is Gone - HEFT Chapter 8: Pèlerinages et Seconde Guerre mondiale : Nouveaux lieux, nouvelles pratiques, nouveaux pèlerins ? - KESTELHOOT & ROCHET Chapter 9: Iconography and Meaning in the First World War American Cemeteries and Monuments in France - KAPP Chapter 10: Pèlerinage de Vimy : définition et usages d’un lieu de mémoire national canadien (1936 à nos jours) - DJABABLA Chapter 11: Les pèlerinages des anciens du 19e RI, de la Grande Guerre aux années 1970 : la mémoire plus que l’histoire ? - LAGADEC Chapter 12: Hallowed Ground: British Battlefield Tourism to the Former Western Front - KELLEHER Chapter 13: Pèleriner dans les régions françaises envahies avec les guides Michelin des champs de bataille - DIEST Chapter 14: The Belleau Wood Battlescape: A Natural Environment that Offers Affordances for Pilgrims - WARFIELD