Empires of the Dead: How One Man’s Vision Led to the Creation of WWI’s War Graves
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David Crane. Empires of the Dead: How One Man’s Vision Led to the Creation of WWI’s War Graves
EMPIRES OF THE DEAD. How One Man’s Vision Led to the Creation of WWI’s War Graves
DAVID CRANE
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
PROLOGUE
ONE. The Making of a Visionary
TWO. The Mobile Unit
THREE. With an Eye to the Future
FOUR. Consolidation
FIVE. The Imperial War Graves Commission
SIX. Kenyon
SEVEN. Opposition
EIGHT. The Task
NINE. Completion
TEN. Keeping the Faith
FOOTNOTES. Prologue
3. With an Eye to the Future
4. Consolidation
7. Opposition
8. The Task
9. Completion
10. Keeping the Faith
NOTES. Abbreviations
Prologue
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY. Archives
Primary and Secondary Sources
INDEX
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Also by David Crane
Copyright
About the Publisher
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TITLE PAGE
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and my work was not progressing very rapidly. Some ‘Tommies’ who were marching down the road … obtained leave to fall out and help me. With their assistance the cross was speedily placed in position and then, without a word they all sprang to attention and solemnly saluted the grave of their dead comrade-in-arms. It was a most impressive and touching sight.
There is something in this vignette – something in its air of reverence, of innocence almost – that movingly evokes a world that was disappearing even as Broadley described it. In the last two weeks of November 1914, he alone had located some three hundred graves in an area from Laventie to Steenvoorde, and yet this was still war and death on a scale that left room for all those human pieties and sensibilities that would sink in the mud and horror of the trenches.
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