The Silence of Memory - Armistice Day, 1919-1946

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'.

Product details

• Authors: Adrian Gregory
• Publisher: Berg Publishers Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.08.1994
• EAN: 9780854969555
• ISBN: 978-0-85496-955-5
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 216 mm x 18 mm
• Series: The Legacy of the Great War
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; European History, First World War, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Society & culture: general, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Historiography, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, Historiography, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Society and culture: general, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period), HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War I