The Great War in History: Debates and Controversies, 1914 to the Present Jay Winter and Antoine Prost Since the Armistice, a vast literature has been produced on the First World War and its repercussions. For the first time, two leading historians from the United States and France have produced a fully comparative analysis of the ways in which this history has been written and interpreted. The book identifies three generations of historians, literary scholars, film directors and writers who have commented upon the war. Through a thematic structure, it assesses not only diplomatic and military studies but also the social and cultural interpretations of the Great War as seen primarily through the eyes of French, German and British writers. It provides a fascinating case study of the practice of history in the twentieth century and of the enduring importance of the national lens in shaping historical narrative. This groundbreaking study will prove invaluable reading to scholars and students of history, war studies, European history and international relations. Jay Winter is Charles J. Stille Professor of History at Yale University. He is a specialist of the First World War and its impact on the twentieth century. His numerous publications include Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History (1995), and 1914-1918: the Great War and the Shaping of the Twentieth Century (1998). Antoine Prost is Emeritus Professor of History at the Universite' de Paris-I. He is the author of many books, including Republican Identities in War and Peace, Representations of France in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (2002), and The emergence of European Trade Unionism (With Jean-Louis Robert and Chris Wrigley, 2004).