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The Blood-Stained Poppy: A critique of the politics of commemoration

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The Blood-Stained Poppy: A critique of the politics of commemoration - Rooney, Kevin, and Heartfield, James
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For a century the war dead have been honoured with Red Poppies on Remembrance Day. The Poppy is part of a cult of death that celebrates the slaughter of the 'Great War' of 1914-18. The Poppy and the Remembrance Day ceremony turn grief to sanctify war. Here we expose the truth about the First World War, and about the century of militarism that followed. The war was not fought to make the world safe, but out of hatred and imperial greed. In the hundred years since the end of the First World War, Britain's military ventures ...

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The Blood-Stained Poppy: A critique of the politics of commemoration 2019, John Hunt Publishing

ISBN-13: 9781789040777

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