Yugoslavia, represented here not only by Bokovoy but also John Paul Newman and Petra Svolj sak, reminds us that its members not only had complex histories that stretched back centuries, but in fact had been on opposite sides in the most recent conflict. Nor was this a case of letting bygones be bygones; as Newman notes, the war of ‘liberation and unification’ that united ‘all South Slavs’ was complicated by the fact that the Croats and Slovenes fought against the Serbs, further demonstrating the vital influence that Austria-Hungary exerted on Europe even after its collapse. In this case, the nation that resulted from Balkan unification was by necessity fraught and fractured, its unity a fiction held together by violence and erasure. In this sense, Svolj sak’s chapter is an appropriate encapsulation of the book as a whole, looking at the dual sacrifice of both the body and the memory of that body. What this should tell us is that any work that attempts to engage with AustriaHungary’s war and its aftermath is ambitious indeed – arguably more so if it takes the form of an edited collection. Perhaps fittingly for its subject matter, however, this collection, made up of diverse approaches and viewpoints, comes together to create a cohesive whole that should be required reading for students of the First World War and the interwar period. More than that, however, the contributors have offered us a remarkable insight into practices of memorialization and commemoration in the context of a multifarious legacy that remains contested and shaped the twentieth century in a way all too often dismissed as a sideshow consisting of ‘far-off countries about which we know nothing’, as Chamberlain might have said. In bringing light to this, the authors, and especially the editors Cornwall and Newman, are not just to be congratulated but also thanked.

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罗伯特·达恩顿，《法兰西文学之旅：法国大革命前夕的书籍世界》

在这里代表的南斯拉夫不仅有博科沃伊，还有约翰·保罗·纽曼和佩特拉·斯沃利·萨克，它提醒我们，其成员不仅有着可以追溯到几个世纪前的复杂历史，而且事实上在最近的冲突中一直站在对立的一边。这也不是让过去成为过去的情况；正如纽曼所指出的，由于克罗地亚人和斯洛文尼亚人与塞尔维亚人作战这一事实使团结“所有南斯拉夫人”的“解放和统一”战争变得复杂，进一步证明了奥匈帝国即使在其崩溃后对欧洲也施加的重要影响. 在这种情况下，由巴尔干统一产生的国家必然充满和分裂，它的统一是通过暴力和抹杀结合在一起的虚构。从这个意义上说，Svolj sak 的章节是对整本书的恰当概括，看着身体和身体记忆的双重牺牲。这应该告诉我们的是，任何试图参与奥匈帝国战争及其后果的作品确实都是雄心勃勃的——如果它采用编辑收藏的形式，可以说更加雄心勃勃。然而，这本书由不同的方法和观点组成，也许与其主题相吻合，但它们汇集在一起​​，形成了一个连贯的整体，应该是第一次世界大战和两次世界大战期间的学生必读的必读之物。然而，更重要的是，撰稿人为我们提供了一个非凡的洞察力，让我们深入了解在多种多样的遗产背景下的纪念和纪念实践，这种遗产仍然存在争议，并以一种经常被视为由“遥远的”组成的杂耍节目而被忽视的方式塑造了 20 世纪。离开我们一无所知的国家'，就像张伯伦可能说的那样。在揭示这一点时，作者，尤其是编辑康沃尔和纽曼，不仅要祝贺，还要感谢。