Краткое описание: This history’s last chapter is on the memory of the First World War. Its author, Modris Eksteins, has examined entries made a quarter of a century ago, in the late 1980s, in the visitors’ books kept by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. At the Bernafay cemetery, under the heading ‘remarks’, one Englishman entered ‘none needed’. This pragmatic and yet pregnant response to the graves that trace a line through north-western Europe, from Ypres to Arras and on to Verdun and Belfort, is not one which historians have been able to share. The First World War has commanded a literature that is quite simply enormous.