The Silence of Memory: Armistice Day, 1919-1946
(Part of the Legacy of the Great War Series)
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Nominated for the Longman History Today Book of the Year Prize, 1995The first full-scale study of the rituals with which the British people commemorated three-quarters of a million war dead.Explains both the origins of the two minutes silence and the reasons for the success of the poppy appeal.This book examines how the British people came to terms with the massive trauma of the First World War. Although the literary memory of the war has often been...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1859730019
ISBN13:9781859730010
Release Date:August 1994
Publisher:Berg Publishers
Length:256 Pages
Weight:0.75 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.5" x 8.7"
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