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Michail, Eugene - ‘A Sting of Remembrance!’: Collective Memory and Its Forgotten Armies

Keywords:

Balkan front soldiers | British popular memory | First World War | forgotten British army | public memory | veteran soldiers

ISFWWS-Keywords:

Balkans | Published memoirs and biographies | Britain | Legacy | Literature

Abstract:

Focusing on the story of the ‘forgotten’ British army of the Balkan front this chapter explains exactly the feeling of exclusion from public memory, the reasons behind it, and the veteran soldiers’ reactions to it. The…