The Culture of Defeat: On National Trauma, Mourning, and Recovery Memoir_Gift_Guide Despite the comfort he finds

Despite the comfort he finds with his family

but at the high school where he now teaches

he must face devastating truths about those closest to him--and about love

The personal

The Culture of Defeat: On National Trauma, Mourning, and Recovery Memoir_Gift_Guide Despite the comfort he findsA fascinating look at history's losers the myths they create to cope with defeat and the steps they take never to be vanquished again History may be written by the victors, Wolfgang Schivelbusch argues in his brilliant and provocative book, but the losers often have the final word. Focusing on three seminal cases of modern warfare the South after the Civil War, France in the wake of the Franco Prussian War, and Germany following World War I