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Evidence, history and the Great War: historians and the impact of 1914-18
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ISBN: 1571818014 1571817247 178238183X 132217024X Year: 2005 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Berghahn

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In the English-speaking world the Great War maintains a tenacious grip on the public imagination, and also continues to draw historians to an event which has been interpreted variously as a symbol of modernity, the midwife to the twentieth century and an agent of social change. Although much ''common knowledge'' about the war and its aftermath has included myth, simplification and generalisation, this has often been accepted uncritically by popular and academic writers alike. While Britain may have suffered a surfeit of war books, many telling much the same story, there is far less written a

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