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Empires of the Dead: How One Man’s Vision Led to the Creation of WWI’s War Graves
David Crane
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Description for Empires of the Dead: How One Man’s Vision Led to the Creation of WWI’s War Graves
Paperback. Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction; the extraordinary and forgotten story behind the building of the First World War cemeteries. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white). BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJF; HBJD; HBLW; HBWN; JWTY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 320.
Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction.
The extraordinary and forgotten story of the building of the World War One cemeteries, due to the efforts of one remarkable man, Fabian Ware.
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Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780007456680
SKU
V9780007456680
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About David Crane
David Crane's first book, ‘Lord Byron’s Jackal’ was published to great acclaim in 1998, and his second, ‘The Kindness of Sisters’ published in 2002, is a groundbreaking work of romantic biography. In 2005 the highly acclaimed 'Scott of the Antarctic' was published, followed by ‘Men of War’, a collection of 19th Century naval biographies, in 2009. Crane lives in north-west ... Read more
Reviews for Empires of the Dead: How One Man’s Vision Led to the Creation of WWI’s War Graves
‘Of the avalanche of books to commemorate the centennial of the opening of the Great War, ‘Empires of the Dead’ is the most original, best written and most challenging so far. Mercifully, it is also one of the shortest. It strikes at the heart of the current debate about what we are commemorating, celebrating or deploring in the flood of ... Read more