War and public memory is a gripping story of Europe's most divisive conflicts. This vital study demonstrates that past atrocities continue to shape nation identity, while memorials transform war into productive mechanisms of memory -- adapted from jacket.

Studying the cultural memory of war : theory and practice --Local, national, and international memory of the First World War and the Armenian genocide -- The Bolshevik Revolution, communism, and successor states after the First World War : memory and identity in interwar Eastern Europe -- Victors' memory, forgetting, and recovery : civil war memory in Spain -- Germany, Nazism, collaboration, and the Holocaust : the history of the Second World War in Europe -- Dealing with Nazism in Germany -- War memory in France and Poland -- Finding the Holocaust and Jewish history in contemporary Europe -- The memory of communism and conflict in Eastern Europe -- War, violence, and memory return : the collapse of Yugoslavia and the war in Bosnia.