The Long Shadow: The Great War and International Memory, 1914-2014 - Professor David Reynolds

1914-18 casts a long shadow across the 20th century.

This lecture explores some of the ways it has been remembered and memorialised, arguing that each country has its own Great War and that British memory is especially distinctive - still shaping attitudes to continental Europe in our day.

[JoachimderZweite]

This was an amazing lecture and I learned so much. I had no idea De Gaulle learned German in a prison camp or that he and Ardenauer had such a close relationship. That explains why French kids were learning German in my Lycee during the early sixties. Geschichte ist mehr als nur Fakten

[FredReckling]

This was a fantastic, insightful talk, one of the best I've seen on the GreshamCollege channel so far. Thank you!

[poodlesrock]

This is a great and thought provoking lecture. Thank you! When he discusses the Russian dead (no-one counted the wounded and civilian casualties), it should be also noted, that it took until 1965 for the German (government) to have its grave-yard in places like Verdun, next to the other combatants.

[ashleyhyatt]

The Ottomans were also major players, but nothing about their perspective. Italy too played a role in WW1 and a major role in WW2, but nothing said there either.

[poodlesrock]

The lecturer should explain more the theory of darwinist evolutionary theory to construct the ueber Mensch all over the world populated by whites and idealisation of colonialism as a good deed to civilise the unter menschlich populations. He should also address the question how the 'Great War' became named as WWI and the (continuation) war as WWII.