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
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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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COVER

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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