The legacy of Serbia's great war

• Verfasst von: Tomić, Alex [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: The legacy of Serbia's great war
• Titelzusatz: politics and remembrance
• Verf.angabe: Alex Tomić
• Verlagsort: New York ; Oxford
• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Jahr: 2024
• Umfang: xv, 310 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Making sense of history ; volume 48
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 978-1-80539-233-0
• DOI: doi:10.3167/9781805392330
• Schlagwörter: (g)Serbien / (s)Erster Weltkrieg / (s)Geschichtsbewusstsein / (s)Kollektives Gedächtnis
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Tomić, Alex: Legacy of Serbia's great war. - First edition. - New York : Berghahn Books, 2024
• K10plus-PPN: 1877086967

Abstract

"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 Tomić 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"--