... 11/11/1918, the end of the Great War - WWI needs to be remembered, in itself. That war seems to have a special place in the disasters ... idea of what human beings are was different - how we represented ourselves was different. And the end of the war - euphoric as it may have been on November 11, 1918 - didn't ... closer to the deep pessimism of World War One films... I'm rambling a bit. I' ...

My review of the new edition of that historical classic, The Great War and Modern Memory is on January Magazine today. If you have an interest in World ... either a research or a point of interest perspective, you will not do better than this book. The new edition has lots of great new photos and illustrations and is even better than the 1975-published version which won the National Book Award over ...

Like many colleagues we’ve been taking large groups of Year 9 pupils to the First World War battlefields for many years. Only this year did we discover the fantastic ‘Road To Passchendaele’ experience. This allows groups to dress up as Great War soldiers, eat what they ate and be guided along the route taken by Australians on October 4th 1917 ...

Mark Levitch. Panthéon de la Guerre: Reconfiguring a Panorama of the Great War. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2006. 224 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8262-1678-6. Reviewed by Martha Hanna Published on H-War (July, 2009) Commissioned by Janet G. Valentine A Pantheon Co-opted In Panthéon de la Guerre Mark Levitch tells a fascinating tale of artistic vision, cultural politics,

... infection. Two facts about head injuries during the First World War are salient. First, because of the nature of trench warfare, the heads ... neurological and behavioral deficits. During the Great War, most psychiatrists believed that war does not create any special kind ... psychiatry, neuroscience, and psychology. The hell of the First World War ended on the 11th hour of the 11th day ...

... . He needs to overhaul the nation's economy. He is being pressured to escalate the Afghanistan War while the streets of Iraq still burn. His choice is as clear as President Johnson's was. The results if he chooses war will be the same. We never got to know what the Great Society would have become if Johnson had said 'No' to war. Maybe this time we ...