Fall 2012
Of Little Comfort: War Widows, Fallen Soldiers, and the Remaking of the Nation after the Great War
Erika Kuhlman ’95 PhD
New York University Press, 2012
In World War I, or the Great War, more than nine million combatants died, leaving behind approximately a million and a half widows. The war widows not only mourned their losses, they also faced quandaries about their new post-war roles in Germany, the United States, and other countries embroiled in the conflict. Would they perform as models of national self-sacrifice and … » More …