War and remembrance in the twentieth century / edited by Jay Winter and Emmanuel Sivan.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Setting the framework / Jay Winter, Emmanuel Sivan -- Forms of kinship and remembrance in the aftermath of the Great War / Jay Winter -- War, death, and remembrance in Soviet Russia / Catherine Merridale -- Agents of memory : Spanish Civil War veterans and disabled soldiers / Paloma Aguilar -- Children as war victims in postwar European cinema / Pierre Sorlin -- From survivor to witness : voices from the Shoah / Annette Wieviorka -- Landscapes of loss and remembrance : the case of Little Tokyo in Los Angeles / Dolores Hayden -- The Algerian War in French collective memory / Antoine Prost -- Private pain and public remembrance in Israel / Emmanuel Sivan -- Personal narratives and commemoration / Samuel Hynes -- Against consolation : Walter Benjamin and the refusal to mourn / Martin Jay.