Benjamin ZiemannBenjamin Ziemann is Professor of Modern German History at the University of Sheffield, UK. He is the author of many books and articles on twentieth-century German and European history and a renowned expert in the comparative military and cultual history of the First World War. His books include Contested Commemorations: Republican War Veterans and Weimar Political Culture (2013), War Experiences in Rural Germany, 1914-1923 (2007), and as co-editor, Understanding the Imaginary War: Culture, Thought and Nuclear Conflict, 1945-90 (2016). Read More Read Less