Shadows Beneath the Somme
The Australian Soldiers Behind the Graffiti of Naours
$41.34
- Hardcover
208 pages
- Release Date
31 March 2027
Summary
They left their names beneath a French village. More than a century later, those names are revealing the men who went to war.
Beneath the French village of Naours, thousands of First World War soldiers left their names on the chalk walls of an ancient underground city. Among them were hundreds of Australians, resting behind the lines before returning to the war.
More than a century later, archaeologist Gilles Prilaux and fellow researchers have used those insc…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781923720244 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1923720244 |
| Author: | Gilles Prilaux, Donna Fiechtner, Michael Fiechtner |
| Publisher: | Big Sky Publishing |
| Imprint: | Big Sky Publishing |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 31 March 2027 |
| Dimensions: | 250mm x 250mm |
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Gilles Prilaux
Gilles Prilaux is an archaeologist with Somme Patrimoine in northern France and has led extensive research into the First World War inscriptions discovered in the underground city of Naours.
Donna and Michael Fiechtner are Australian researchers and authors with a longstanding interest in the Australian experience of the First World War. Their earlier work on the Naours inscriptions, The Silent Soldiers of Naours, began an ongoing project to identify the soldiers behind the names and recover their stories.
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