ID: 505
The Culture of Defeat: On National Trauma, Mourning and Recovery.
SCHIVELBUSCH, Wolfgang

Category: History

Place/Publisher/Date:
London, Granta Books. 2003.

Description: Translated from the German by Jefferson Chase. First UK edition; 8vo; original cloth boards and dust jacket. This fascinating book charts the losers response to military failure with cultural superiority as they generate myths to glorify their past and explain their defeat. Fine in fine dust jacket.

Price £25.00