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The Silence of Memory - Armistice Day, 1919-1946 (Hardcover, Revised)
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The Silence of Memory - Armistice Day, 1919-1946 (Hardcover, Revised)
Series: The Legacy of the Great War
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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 discussed, little has been written on the public ceremonies on
and around 11 November which dominated the public memory of the war
in the inter-war years. This book aims to remedy the deficiency by
showing the pre-eminence of Armistice Day, both in reflecting what
people felt about the war and in shaping their memories of it. It
shows that this memory was complex rather than simple and that it
was continually contested. Finally it seeks to examine the impact
of the Second World War on the memory of the First and to show how
difficult it is to recapture the idealistic assumptions of a world
that believed it had experienced 'the war to end all wars'.
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