What we know of war is always mediated knowledge and feeling. We need lenses to filter out some of its blinding, terrifying light. These lenses are not fixed;...
This Element is a user's guide to the cultural history of warfare since 1914. It provides summaries of the basic questions historians have posed in what is now ...
In the wake of the monstrous projects of Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and others in the twentieth century, the idea of utopia has been discredited. Yet, historian Jay ...
Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of the First World War offers a history of the war from a predominantly political angle and concerns itself with the story of ...
Volume 3 of The Cambridge History of the First World War explores the social and cultural history of the war and considers the role of civil society throughout ...
Jay Winter's powerful study of the "collective remembrance" of the Great War offers a major reassessment of one of the critical episodes in the cultural history...
Volume 1 of The Cambridge History of the First World War offers a history of the war from a predominantly political angle and concerns itself with the story of ...
Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of the First World War offers a history of the war from a predominantly political angle and concerns itself with the story of ...
This third volume of The Cambridge History of the First World War provides a comprehensive account of the war's military history. An international team of leadi...
Through the life of one extraordinary man, this biography reveals what the term human rights meant to the men and women who endured two world wars, and how this...
byMichael Teitelbaum,Jay Winter
The world's population has grown by five billion people over the past century, an astounding 300 percent increase. Yet it is actually the decline in family size...
This is the first major study of German attitudes towsrds England during the Great War, 1914–1918, continuing the story of Anglo-German antagonism where previ...
How war has been remembered collectively is the central question in this volume. War in the twentieth century is a vivid and traumatic phenomenon which left be...
byBartosz Dziewanowski-Stefańczyk,Jay Winter
This set of essays introduces readers to new historical research on the creation of the new order in East-Central Europe in the period immediately following 191...
byJay Winter,Philipp Witkop,A. F. Wedd
Originally appearing at the same time as the pacifist novel All Quiet on the Western Front, this powerful collection provides a glimpse into the hearts and mind...