Winter, Jay, and Antoine Prost: The Great War in History: Debates and Controversies, 1914 to the Present.(Book review)

History: Review of New Books, March, 2006 by Cassell, R.D.

Winter, Jay, and Antoine Prost The Great War in History: Debates and Controversies, 1914 to the Present New York: Cambridge University Press 250 pp., $70.00 cloth, $28.99 paper ISBN 0-521-85083-5 cloth ISBN 0-521-61633-6 paper Publication Date: July 2005

Jay Winter, formerly of Cambridge University and now at Yale, is the authority on Britain's experience in World War I and a pioneer in developing a cultural history of the war. Antoine Prost, emeritus professor at the University of Paris, is an equally prominent French historian of the war. Their collaboration has produced an ambitious effort to assess the historiography of the war from its inception to the present, focused mainly on the French, British, and German accounts.

Winter and Prost organize...

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