Monumental conflicts : twentieth century wars and the evolution of popular memory / [edited by] Derek Mallett.

Includes index.

There is absolutely nothing like the carving of names : Imperial War Graves Commission sites and First World War memory / Hanna Smyth -- War Mall : civic art, memory, and war on America's national public space / William Thomas Allison -- Re-carving the stone : reinterpreting World War II monuments in Brazil / Uri Rosenheck -- Memorializing the unknown heroes of World War II : German deserter monuments / Steven R. Welch -- Emperors, bones, and dissonant memories : Japanese commemoration of the Battle for Peleliu Island / Stephen C. Murray -- Divided nation, divided memories / Brendan Wright -- War tourism and geographies of memory in Vietnam / Christina Schwenkel -- Expeditionary wars and national pride -- Curse you, Red Baron! : World War I aviation's impact on popular visions of flight / Guillaume de Syon -- The British public and the Falklands War / Davide Borsani -- Remembering the Soviet-Afghan War in Russia / Roger R. Reese -- The Persian Gulf War in American popular memory / Robert T. Jones.

"Monumental Conflicts examines 20th century wars from the First World War to the First Gulf War, each chapter analyzing how public memory has evolved over time. The chapters raise fascinating questions about war and memory: Why are wars remembered as they are? What factors drive changes in public perception? What implications arise from remembering and commemorating a war or particular aspects of a war? What does public memory of a war say about us as a society? The volume is divided into three sections focusing on political evolution, negotiated memories of war, and national pride and covers international wars from Afghanistan to Vietnam and German deserter monuments to Vietnamese war tourism"-- Provided by publisher.