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The Legacy of Serbia's Great War: Politics and Remembrance

The Legacy of Serbia's Great War: Politics and Remembrance

Tomic, Alex

Hardcover

Series: Making Sense of History, Book 48

Eastern European HistoryGeneral Political ScienceWorld War I

ISBN10: 1805392336
ISBN13: 9781805392330
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: Jan 5 2024
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.34
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

In the winter of 1915, following the invasion of Serbia by the Central Powers, the Serbian Army retreated across the mountains of Albania and Montenegro together with thousands of civilians. Around 240,000 lost their lives. Today, the story of the retreat is little known, except in Serbia where it is represents the heroic Serbian sacrifice in the Great War. In this book Alex Tomic examines the centenary events memorializing the First World War with the retreat at its core, and provides a persuasive account of the ways in which the remembrance of Serbian history has been manipulated for political purposes. Whether through commemorations, ceremonies, or grass- root initiatives, she demonstrates how these have been used as distractions from the more recent unexamined past and in doing so provides an important new perspective on the cultural history of commemoration.

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