Jay Winter is Charles J. Stille Professor of History at Yale University. He has published widely on the history of the First World War, and is one of the founders of the Historial de la grande guerre, the international museum of the Great War in Péronne, France. He is author of Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History (Cambridge University Press, 1995).

Résumé
Through the biography of one extraordinary man at the centre of the human rights movement, this book reveals how the political and intellectual movement emerged from the experiences of a generation who endured two world wars, and gained the momentum to ultimately enshrine the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Contenu

Introduction to the English edition; Part I. In the Shadow of the Great War: 1. Family and education, 188714; 2. The Great War and its aftermath; 3. Cassin in Geneva; 4. From nightmare to reality: 193640; Part II. The Jurist of Free France: 5. Free France: 1940; 6. World war: 1941; 7. Restoring the Republican legal order: the 'Comit Juridique'; 8. Freeze frame: Ren Cassin in 1944; Part III. The Struggle for Human Rights: 9. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: origins and echoes; 10. The vice-president of the Conseil d'Etat, 194460; 11. A Jewish life; Conclusion; An essay on sources.