Key HISTORICAL Works on World War 1 Memory

• Jay Winter and Antoine Prost, “Agents of Memory,” The Great War in History: Debates and Controversies (2nd ed, 2020) – at Cambridge Core
• Santanu Das, India, Empire, and First World War Culture (2018)
• Jay Winter, War Beyond Words: Languages of Remembrance from the Great War to the Present (2017)
• Jay Winter, Sites of Memory: Sites of Mourning (1995) – on Proquest Ebooks
• Samuel Hynes, A War Imagined: First World War and English Culture (1990)
• Paul Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory (1975)

Museums

• Imperial War Museums – UK, founded 1917
• Historial de la Grande Guerre – Peronne, France, founded 1992

Primary Sources – LITERARY

• Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth (1933)
• Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)
• Robert Graves, Goodbye to All That (1929)
• Henri Barbusse, Under Fire: The Story of a Squad (1917)

Primary SOURCES – ARTISTIC

• John Akromfah, “Mimesis: African Soldier” (IWM, Smoking Dogs Films)
• Work of Käthe Kollwitz
• Otto Dix
• Paul Nash, “We Are Making a New World”

Primary Sources – Films

• They Shall Not Grow Old. Dir. Peter Jackson, UK/New Zealand, 2018
• A Very Long Engagement. Dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet, based on novel by Sébastien Japrisot, 2004
• Grand Illusion. Dir. René Clair, France, 1937
• J’Accuse. Dir. Abel Gance, France, 1919
• All Quiet on the Western Front, 1930
• The World’s War: Forgotten Soldiers of Empire (BBC miniseries), 2014