Acknowledgements Introduction 1 Faces  Between Stigmatisation and Sacralisation: The Officers' Ward by Marc Dugain From Destruction to Reconstruction: My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You by Louisa Young Facial Disfigurement and Shell Shock: Tell by Frances Itani Abjection and Precarity: The Great Swindle by Pierre Lemaitre Aversion and Masks: Toby's Room by Pat Barker 2 Women  Maternal Pacifism: Dans la guerre by Alice Ferney Grief and Betrayal: Zennor in Darkness by Helen Dunmore Gendered Disorder: My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You by Louisa Young Asymmetric Similarities: Deafening by Frances Itani Empathetic Unsettlement: Les Fleurs d'hiver by Angélique Villeneuve 3 Communities  Egoism and Brutalisation: By a Slow River by Philippe Claudel Adoptive Kinship: The Heroes' Welcome by Louisa Young Community of Memory: Broken Ground by Jack Hodgins Canada Divided: The Draft Dodger by Louis Caron and A Secret Between Us by Daniel Poliquin Community of (Not)Seeing: In Desolate Heaven by Robert Edric 4 Mourners  Psychic Crypt: The Stone Carvers by Jane Urquhart The Illness of Mourning: Toby's Room by Pat Barker The Cult of Mourning: The Great Swindle by Pierre Lemaitre Infinite Grief: Le Monument. Roman vrai by Claude Duneton 5 Post-Memory  An Intimate Archaeology of Knowledge: The Wars by Timothy Findley Writing as the Act of Sepulchre: The Acacia by Claude Simon A Family's Compiègne Wagon: Fields of Glory by Jean Rouaud Female Seekers: In Pale Battalions by Robert Goddard and Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks Homoerotic Post- Memory: Douze lettres d'amour au soldat inconnu by Olivier Barbarant Conclusion Bibliography Index