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"Jay Winter has written an elegy....He has devoted a scholarly lifetime to the study of the Great War and is now its leading Anglo-American historian. Whether one accepts his conclusions or not they are advanced with a breathtaking erudition that the proponents of orthodoxy will have to engage with....Winter expands enormously the horizons of the wartime and postwar culture of mourning and commemoration."Jay Winter is the author of 'Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History (Canto)', published 1998 under ISBN 9780521639880 and ISBN 0521639883.
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