Antoine Prost is Professor Emeritus at the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. He is the world”s leading authority on the history of French veterans” movements and the history of French education, and has written extensively on twentieth-century social and cultural history. He is co-author with Jay Winter of The Great War in History: Debates and Controversies, 1914 to the Present (Cambridge University Press, 2005).