Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Memory and Making Narratives
5. Canon Fodder 17
6. Too Close to History 37
7. State War Histories 57
8. The Great War in Detective Fiction 79
9. “Backstabbing Arabs” and “Shirking Kurds” 99
10. Men of Suvla 127
11. History Trumps Memory 151
12. Rediscovering and Rewriting Memory
13. The Names of the Dead 171
14. Loyalty and Submission 193
15. “Kitchener’s Tourists” 215
16. The Forgotten Few 235
17. “Loyal Until Death” 261
18. The Enemy at Home 287
19. Seeing and Feeling Memory
20. The Battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands (1927) and the Struggle for the Cinematic Image of the Great War 305
21. “Can One Grow Used To Death?” 329
22. Kitsch, Commemoration, And Mourning in the Aftermath of the Great War 351
23. “Ask him if He’ll Drink A Toast to the Dead” 367
24. Otto Dix and the Great War 387
25. Contributors’ Biographies 415
26. Index 419