Epitaphs of the Great War: The Somme
The Somme
$28.30
- Hardcover
132 pages
- Release Date
30 June 2016
Summary
Limited by the Imperial War Graves Commission to 66 letters - and that included counting the space between each word as one letter - this first in a short series of books highlights what The Times called, ‘the heart of the bereaved’; the thousands of silent voices that ‘speak’ from the war cemeteries. Voices which stand at the opposite end of the commemorative spectrum to the Cenotaph; an austere ‘silent’ tribute to the Empire’s dead, the other a clamour of individual’voices’, each one a pers…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781910500521 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1910500526 |
| Author: | Sarah Wearne |
| Publisher: | Unicorn Publishing Group |
| Imprint: | Uniform Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 132 |
| Release Date: | 30 June 2016 |
| Weight: | 326g |
| Dimensions: | 187mm x 137mm x 25mm |
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Critics Review
“All battlefields are personal. For proof of this look no further than this gentle book by Wearne. I like it because it lacks any judgement. Quite clearly she has deep feelings about the war, but they do not intrude. But the author sticks to the personal inscriptions of the bereaved made a century ago. Their grief, their tributes do not need further enhancement. Explanation: yes. Interpretation: no. The device is simple as it is brilliant. Take an inscription from a soldier’s grave and make him real for a new generation. Wearne achieves this here.”
– “War History Online”About The Author
Sarah Wearne
Sarah Wearne is a military historian. Her current Twitter project, Great War Epitaphs (@wwinscriptions), is publishing an epitaph every day of the centenary of World War I.
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