Annette Becker is a Professor at the University of Paris-Nanterre, a senior member of the prestigious Institut Universitaire de France and a well-known historian of the First World War. Dr. Becker‘s work stands out for intellectual curiosity and variety of scope: she has written extensively on the deep cultural transformations the Great War produced, and on how they affected and radically modified the European paradigms of perception in the first half of the twentieth century. One of her many books is especially worth-mentioning here: 14-18: Understanding the Great War, co-written with Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau and published by Profile Books, London, in 2002.