War Dead

Luc Capdevila is a Lecturer in Contemporary History at the University of Rennes. He is co-author of Hommes et femmes dans la France en guerre as well as author of many articles on war and culture. Danièle Voldman is Director of Research at the Institut d’histoire du temps présent. She has written on oral history, societies at war and French post-war reconstruction.

This is a profoundly useful interdisciplinary study. -- Ana Carden-Coyne The International History Review The book would make a good general survey for undergraduate use in classes on war and society, or Western cultural history. -- Mark Hatlie,University of Maryland University College on H-War H-Net It is thoroughly researched and, for this reason, is a valuable compendium of societal reaction to mass death in war during the twentieth century. -- Thomas M. Hawley, Eastern Washington University American Historical Review This is a profoundly useful interdisciplinary study. The book would make a good general survey for undergraduate use in classes on war and society, or Western cultural history. It is thoroughly researched and, for this reason, is a valuable compendium of societal reaction to mass death in war during the twentieth century.

• Introduction; 1 The War Dead; 2 Identifying the Dead to Mourn them Properly; 3 Armies and States faced with their War Dead; 4 What should be done with Enemy Corpses?; 5 Ways of Bidding Farewell; 6 Ritualised Mourning in Acts of Commemoration; Bibliography.