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In the library-museum of the President Valdas Adamkaus, a discussion was held dedicated to the acceptance of the book "The Great War in Society and Culture: Lithuania and East Prussia" and the centenary of the end of the First World War. The co-authors of the book, Vasilijus Safronov and Vygantas Vareikis, as well as Andrzej Pukszto, Kęstas Raškauskas, Tomasz Blaszczak and Egidijus Aleksandravičius will participate in the discussion. November 11 this year marks the hundredth anniversary of the symbolic event of the end of the First World War - the Armistice of Compiegne. What did this war change? What was the impact on society? Was the war really forgotten in Lithuania, and its experiences overshadowed by the subsequent struggles for independence? These questions are raised in 2018. In the book "The Great War in Society and Culture: Lithuania and East Prussia" prepared at the Institute of History and Archeology of the Baltic Region of Klaipėda University. In Lithuanian historiography, this is the first study of this scale on the social and cultural impact of the First World War. Moving the reader to the period before 1939-1940, the book reveals how the First World War was experienced and how it was later interpreted in two neighboring societies: Lithuania and East Prussia. By choosing to study these regions, an attempt was made to solve a broader question: how justified is the division of the European continent into the part where the First World War was remembered in the interwar period, and the part where it was allegedly forgotten.