Introduction : war, memory, remembrance
Pt. One: War and remembrance. The setting : the Great War in the memory boom of the twentieth century
Shell shock, memory, and identity
Pt. Two: Practices of remembrance. All quiet on the Eastern front : photography and remembrance
War letters : cultural memory and the "Soldiers' Tale" of the Great War
Ironies of war : intellectual styles and responses to the Great War in Britain and France
War memorials : a social agency interpretation
War, migration, and remembrance : Britain and her dominions
Pt. Three: Theaters of memory. Grand illusions : war, film, and collective memory
Between history and memory : television, public history, and historical scholarship
War museums : the historial and historical scholarship
"Witness to a time" : authority, experience, and the two World Wars
Pt. Four: The memory boom and the twentieth century. Controversies and conclusions.