The Ghosts of War: Popular Memory and the Battle of the Somme [WWI]


Even after the war, the effect of the battle carried on. Each November 11th, at 11:00 am during the Interwar Period, a Two-Minute Silence was imposed throughout England. After the war, a war monument was built in London - not one befitting pomp and circumstance - but a simple, somber tower. What a difference a war makes!!

Footnotes:

[1] Martin Gilbert, World War I: A Complete History, (NY: Henry Holt and Co., 1994), p. 258.

[2] Ibid.

[3] A.J.P. Taylor, English History, 1914-1945, (NY: Oxford University Press, 1965), p. 60.

[4] Gilbert, pp. 258-59.

[5] Ibid., p. 260.

[6] Taylor, pp. 60-61.

[7] Ibid., p. 61.

[8] Gilbert, p. 275.

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