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Chickering, Roger - Why are We still Interested in This Old War?

Keywords:

American Revolution | First World War | Second World War | War

ISFWWS-Keywords:

General | Legacy | Literature | Culture | Society

Abstract:

This chapter begins with an immodest proposition. This is that the foundation of the Historiale in Peronne was not the only reason why the year 1992 was significant for the historiography of the First World War. In March of the same year, the first in a series of conferences took place in Washington, DC on the history of total wa…