Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning:
The Great War in European Cultural
History (Canto) by Jay Winter
The Great War In Retrospect
Jay Winters powerful study of the collective remembrance of the Great
War offers a major reassessment of one of the critical episodes in the
cultural history of the twentieth century. Dr. Winter looks anew at the
culture of commemoration and the ways in which communities endeavored
to find collective solace after 1918. Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning is a
profound and moving book of great importance for the attempt to
understand the course of European history during the first half of the
twentieth century.
Personal Review: Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great
War in European Cultural History (Canto) by Jay Winter
There are many reasons why World War I has been labeled THE GREAT
WAR: it was the war to end all wars in the minds of those who lived
through it, who were directly and indirectly affected by it, who continue to

reference it as the war with the most emotional cost. In times when wars
seems to constantly queue since that inception of world war, wars
spreading from WW II, through Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf, Balkans,
Eastern Europe, Spain, Africa, Iraq, Afghanistan, South America and on,
taking a long hard look at the Great War will hopefully center our attention
on a past time that can be analyzed and from which we can hopefully
learn.
Now that Jay Winters' brilliant book 'Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning :
The Great War in European Cultural History' is available/affordable in
paperback, every household should have a copy as children grow into the
years of this century. Winters' examination of the devastation of WW I and
the ways in which it informed all of the arts, the architecture, the literature,
films, memorials - the people of the globe - is a mighty assignment and he
is more than successful in humanizing his message. This book overflows
with photographs of places, faces, bodies alive and dead, paintings,
sculptures, film stills - each of which drives home Winters' powerful
message.
Sad though it may be to admit, war is a part of life on this abused planet:
the more we study it the more we hopefully will reduce it. Winters wants to
make sure that we remember, that we read, view, walk through, see, hear,
and listen to the remnants the Great War left behind. This is a powerful,
necessary book and should be required reading and viewing for us all.
Highly recommended. Grady Harp, August 05
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