Author: Nigel Penn

Jay Winter is Charles J. Stille Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University, Connecticut. He is a specialist on World War I and its impact on the twentieth century, and the author or co-author of twenty-five books, including Socialism and the Challenge of War: Ideas and Politics in Britain, 1912–18 (2014); Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History (1995); 1914–1918: Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century (1996); Rene Cassin and Human Rights (with Antoine Prost, 2013); and most recently, War beyond Words: Languages of Remembrance from The Great War to the Present (2017). In addition he has edited or co-edited thirty books and contributed 130 book chapters to edited volumes. He is a founder of the Research Centre of the Historial de la Grande Guerre, at Péronne, Somme, France.