Ross Wilson, Cultural Heritage of the Great War in Britain, Farnham: Ashgate, 2013, hardback ￡65.00, pp.245

摘要

In this thought-provoking monograph, Ross Wilson examines how the Great War is deployed in contemporary Britain and what this tells us about its cultural heritage. It is a fascinating book that provides an insight into the appropriation of the Great War in our language and media imagery and the utility of referencing the Great War in modern Britain, but which could do more to situate this analysis within a wider context of literature on the memory of the Great War and public perceptions of the same