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Memories for the Masses,on foot or by carriage, the book contained several coloured illustrations of the battlefields. The conflict may just have ended, but the images portrayed serene countryside, with only the occasional crosses giving any indication of the recent carnage. While Fietta’s recommendations on hotels, places

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Martyrdom and Resistance,g or even the successfulness of the fighting, the extreme and often intense experiences become moments of virtue. When war brings defeat, the need to seek solace in myths of national revelation becomes all the greater. In recent decades, scholarship on the Second World War and its aftermath has led

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The Lost Provinces,s of the Franco-Prussian War, preventing the normalization of relations between the two powers and ensuring that the French defeat could not be forgotten regardless of the passage of time. While support for . within government and the wider public may have been at best limited, the differentiated sh

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Conclusion,ghbours watching indifferently while its territory was dismembered. In 1814–1815, French defeat had been at the hands of an alliance of nations; in 1870–1871, it had been at the hands of just one. The gap between the national self-image and the realities of . could scarcely have been greater.

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poor record for promoting the well-being of women (Kynch and Sen 1983; Drèze and Sen (1989), pp. 204–25; World Bank, 1991). While there is not necessarily a connection between these two facets of development in India, it is striking that the core relief policy of protecting food entitlement through

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Karine Varleynds alone — ALONE — before the embattled might of totalitarian Europe, Nazi Germany rooted in hatred and cruelty and perversion, and Fascist Italy standing forth at last in her true colours, wearing a suit of tarnished black-mail and with the bar-sinister upon her shield.