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Haig and Kitchener in Twentieth-Century Britain - Remembrance, Representation and Appropriation (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Haig and Kitchener in Twentieth-Century Britain - Remembrance, Representation and Appropriation (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Lord Kitchener and Lord Haig are two monumental figures of the
First World War. Their reputations, both in their lifetimes and
after their deaths, have been attacked and defended, scrutinized
and contested. They have been depicted in film, print and public
memorials in Britain and the wider world, and new biographies of
both men appear to this day. The material representations of Haig
and Kitchener were shaped, used and manipulated for official and
popular ends by a variety of groups at different times during the
twentieth century. The purpose of this study is not to discover the
real individual, nor to attack or defend their reputations, rather
it is an exploration of how both men have been depicted since their
deaths and to consider what this tells us about the nature and
meaning of First World War commemoration. While Haig's
representation was more contested before the Second World War than
was Kitchener's, with several constituencies trying to fashion and
use Haig's memory - the Government, the British Legion,
ex-servicemen themselves, and bereaved families - it was probably
less contested, but overwhelmingly more negative, than Kitchener's
after the Second World War. The book sheds light on the notion of
'heroic' masculinity - questioning, in particular, the degree to
which the image of the common soldier replaced that of the high
commander in the popular imagination - and explores how the
military heritage in the twentieth century came into collision with
the culture of modernity. It also contributes to ongoing debates in
British historiography and to the larger debates over the social
construction of memory, the problematic relation between what is
considered 'heritage' and 'history', and the need for historians to
be sensitive and attentive to the interconnections between heritage
and history and their contexts.
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