THE FIRST WORLD WAR: A DOCUMENTARY RECORD
Series One: European War 1914-1919, the War Reserve Collection from Cambridge University Library

Part 10: The Memory of War

“The material is strongest in what might be called the cultural history of the War .”
Dr J M Winter, Department of History, Yale University.

The War Reserve Collection at Cambridge University Library is one of the finest collections in the world of materials documenting the First World War.  

Part 10 completes the collection and looks at the Memory of War.  It covers:

• The literature of War - from collections of poetry to Good bye-ee!
• Cartoons and comic strips collected together after the War;
• Popular illustrated chronicles of the War;
• Pictures of memorials and grave sites;
• Photographic records of the devastation caused by war;
• Souvenir books produced by individual services and regiments.