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Article: The Cross and the Trenches: Religious Faith and Doubt Among British and American Great War Soldiers.(Book Review)
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- Journal of Social History
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- December 22, 2004
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The Cross and the Trenches: Religious Faith and Doubt Among British and American Great War Soldiers. By Richard Schweitzer (Westport, Ct.: Praeger, 2003. xxxiii plus 311 pp.).
This book places the role of religion within the dichotomy in Great War studies between "traditional" and "modern" cultural responses. Scholars such as Paul Fussell (The Great War and Modern Memory) have argued that the shock and novelty of the Great War created an entirely new culture that stood at such variance to traditional culture that it is appropriate to think of post-war culture as entirely new and "modern." More recently, Jay Winter (Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning) has led a ...