1. J. Winter, Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995).
2. See also J. Winter, ‘Agents of Memory: How Did People Live between Remembrance and Forgetting?’ in J. Winter and A. Prost (eds), The Great War in History: Debates and Controversies, 1914 to the Present (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), pp. 173–191.
3. E. Goldstein, Winning the Peace: British Diplomatic Strategy, Peace Planning, and the Paris Peace Conference 1916–1920 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991), pp. 10–11. The memorandum Goldstein is referring to was by Sir Ralph Paget and Sir William Tyrrell, in the first major assessment of the changes that would be wrought to British foreign policy after the war, “Negotiations at the End of the War’, 31 August 1916, CAB 29/1/P-2 National Archives (NA).
4. The literature on the First World War is vast, and also includes D. Stevenson, 1914–1918: The History of the First World War (London: Penguin, 2005);
5. H. Strachan, The First World War: A New History (New York: Basic Books, 2006);