Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-243) and index
Introduction -- The mists and myths of war -- Lest we forget -- The remembrance debate -- The season of the dead -- The realities of war -- The reasons for war -- The poppy, then and now -- A history of the hero -- Remembrance in the twenty-first century -- Postscript: some practical changes
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Proposing a return to the original ideas of Remembrance, and suggesting many changes to the modern-day spectacle, this book is a powerful polemic on how our ideas of heroism, duty, and grief have lost their way. The text calls for a re-focusing of Remembrance from its divisive tradition to a more uniting and appropriate observance