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100 1 $aHarrison, Ted.
245 10 $aRemembrance today :$bpoppies, grief and heroism /$cTed Harrison.
260 $aLondon :$bReaktion Books,$cc2012.
300 $a248 p. ;$c23 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 239-243) and index.
520 8 $aProposing 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.
505 0 $aIntroduction -- 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.
650 0 $aWar and society.
650 0 $aMemorial rites and ceremonies.
650 0 $aCollective memory.
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