The Great War in History

Jay Winter is Professor Emeritus at Yale University, Connecticut. He is the author of Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History (Cambridge, 1995) and editor of The Cambridge History of the First World War (Cambridge, 2014). Antoine Prost is Professor Emeritus at University of Paris I – Panthéon-Sorbonne and was President of the French Commission on the Centenary of the Great War (2012-19). He is the co-author (with Gerd Krumeich) of Verdun 1916, une histoire franco-allemande (2015) and the author of Les Anciens Combattants et la société française (1914-1939) (1977) and Les Français de la Belle Époque (2019).

• List of figures; Preface to the English edition (2004); Preface to the English edition (2020); Introduction; 1. Three historiographical configurations; 2. Politicians and diplomats: why war and for what aims?; 3. Generals and ministers: who commanded and how?; 4. Soldiers: how did they wage war?; 5. Businessmen, industrialists and bankers: how was the economic war waged?; 6. Workers: did war prevent or provoke revolution?; 7. Civilians: how did they make war and survive it?; 8. Agents of memory: Witnesses and historians, 1918–2000; 9. A new century: the age of the internet; 10. Writing the history of the Great War, 2000–2020; Conclusion: After the Centenary; Select bibliography; Index.

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