Media, Memory, and the First World War Roaring Twenties In a new story from

In a new story from an award-winning duo

1919 opens to find America and the world at war

On the home front

and of colonial soldiers more generally

Media, Memory, and the First World War Roaring Twenties In a new story fromDescription 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'