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The Blood-Stained Poppy

The Blood-Stained Poppy A Critique of the Politics of Commemoration

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Publisher's Synopsis

For a century the war dead have been honoured with Red Poppies on Remembrance Day. The Poppy is part of a cult of death that celebrates the slaughter of the 'Great War' of 1914-18. The Poppy and the Remembrance Day ceremony turn grief to sanctify war. Here we expose the truth about the First World War, and about the century of militarism that followed. The war was not fought to make the world safe, but out of hatred and imperial greed. In the hundred years since the end of the First World War, Britain's military ventures have continued to wreak havoc across the world. The Poppy is a symbol of British militarism, not a badge of peace.

About the Publisher

Zero Books

Contemporary culture has eliminated the concept and public figure of the intellectual. A cretinous anti-intellectualism presides, cheerled by hacks in the pay of multinational corporations who reassure their bored readers that there is no need to rouse themselves from their stupor. Zer0 Books knows that another kind of discourse - intellectual without being academic, popular without being populist - is not only possible: it is already flourishing. Zer0 is convinced that in the unthinking, blandly consensual culture in which we live, critical and engaged theoretical reflection is more important than ever before.

Book information

ISBN: 9781789040777
Publisher: John Hunt
Imprint: Zero Books
Pub date:
DEWEY: 940.31
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 184
Weight: 194g
Height: 141mm
Width: 217mm
Spine width: 12mm