Fallen Soldiers: Reshaping the Memory of the World Wars - Rilegato

Mosse, George L.

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ISBN 10: 0195062477 ISBN 13: 9780195062472

Casa editrice: Oxford Univ Pr, 1990

Riassunto

At the outbreak of the First World War, an entire generation of young men charged into battle for what they believed was a glorious cause. Over the next four years, that cause claimed the lives of some 13 million soldiers--more than twice the number killed in all the major wars from 1790 to 1914. But despite this devastating toll, the memory fostered by the belligerents was not of the grim reality of its trench warfare and battlefield carnage. Instead, the nations that fought commemorated the war's sacredness and the martyrdom of those who had died for the greater glory of the fatherland.
The sanctification of war is the subject of this pioneering work by well-known European historian George L. Mosse.Fallen Soldiers offers a profound analysis of what he calls the Myth of the War Experience--a vision of war that masks its horror, consecrates its memory, and ultimately justifies its purpose. Beginning with the Napoleonic wars, Mosse traces the origins of this myth and its symbols, and examines the role of war volunteers in creating and perpetuating it. His book is likely to become one of the classic studies of modern war and the complex, often disturbing nature of human perception and memory.

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Informazioni sull?autore

About the Author:

George L. Mosse is Bascom-Weinstein Professor of History, Emeritus, at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, and Koebner Professor of History, Emeritus, at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. His previous books includeThe Crisis of German Ideology, Nazi Culture, The Nationalization of theMasses, Nationality and Sexuality, and Toward the Final Solution.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Oxford Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0195062477
• ISBN 13: 9780195062472
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 271
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile