Entrenched loyalties
While Europeans share memories of the second world war, histories of 1914-18 are strictly divided along national lines. Adam Thorpe visits the battlefields and challenges the myths

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As the American historian Jay Winter comments: "Paradoxically, the more unified Europe becomes, the more the war's historiography is compartmentalised. Living in different intellectual universes ... we historians are further than ever from a European vision of the very conflict that created present-day Europe."