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At the outbreak of the First World War, an entire generation of young men charged into battle for what they believed was a glorious cause. Over the next four years, that cause claimed the lives of some 13 million soldiers--more than twice the number killed in all the major wars from to But despite this devastating toll, the memory of the war was not, predominantly, of the grim. In the summer of , as historian George L. Mosse reminds us in his unusual and stimulating new book, Fallen Soldiers: Reshaping the Memory of the World Wars, they poured into the city's. Fallen Soldiers Reshaping The Memory Of The World Wars 1/6 [DOC] Fallen Soldiers Reshaping The Memory Of The World Wars Fallen Soldiers-George L. Mosse At the outbreak of the First World War, an entire generation of young men charged into battle for what they believed was a glorious cause.

Fallen Soldiers - George L. Mosse - At the outbreak of the First World War, an entire generation of young men charged into battle for what they believed was a glorious cause. Over the next four years, that cause claimed the lives of some 13 million soldiers--more than twice the number killed in all the major wars from to Fallen soldiers: reshaping the memory of the world wars reshaping the memory of the world wars by Mosse, George L. (George Lachmann), War, and the sanctification of it, is the subject of this pioneering work by well-known European historian George L. Mosse. Fallen Soldiers offers a profound analysis of what he calls the Myth of the War Experience--a vision of war that masks its horror, consecrates its memory, and ultimately justifies its purpose. Beginning with the Napoleonic wars, Mosse traces the origins of this myth and its symbols, and examines the role of war volunteers in creating and perpetuating it.