Books in the Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare series

This ground-breaking study investigates the history and legacy of the Korean War within the realm of intimate human social experience. In doing so, it boldly reclaims kinship as a vital category in historical and political enquiry and examines how Korea's civil war memories remain present in the Korean consciousness.

This book takes a new look at France during and after the German occupation. It challenges traditional chronology that concentrates on the Vichy government and punctures standard interpretations that divide occupied France into resisters and collaborators. Throughout, race - specifically Jewishness - and gender are drawn together in original and illuminating ways.

This is a volume of comparative essays on political and cultural 'mobilization' in the main belligerent countries in Europe during the First World War. It explores how and why the war was supported for so long, and why those states with a strong political support and national integration were ultimately successful.

This compelling study examines the experience of German soldiers on the Eastern front in World War I. It reveals an important legacy of the war, which conditioned German relations with Eastern Europe, especially during later Nazi occupation. It fills a yawning gap in the literature of the Great War.

Before Rwanda and Bosnia, and before the Holocaust, the first genocide of the twentieth century happened in Turkish Armenia in 1915. Jay Winter has brought together a team of experts to examine how Americans learned of this catastrophe and how they tried to help its victims.

This study attempts to show how the Spanish Civil War was understood and absorbed, particularly by those who could claim themselves as 'the victors', taking as its main focus the fierce repression and violence of the period, and the role of Catholic and Fascist ideology.

The vivid and traumatic phenomenon of war provides the basis for a detailed examination of how war has been remembered collectively this century. Material is drawn from Europe, America and Israel to show that small groups of survivors act together in order to preserve a piece of the past.

The first major study of German attitudes towards England during the Great War, 1914-18. This book focuses on the extremity of anti-English feeling in Germany, and on the attempt by writers, propagandists and cartoonists to redefine Britain as the chief enemy of the German people and their cultural heritage.