Local historians will relish the way contrasting case studies are developed as a powerful means of analysis, using an array of sources including newspapers, council records, church, school, business and hospital archives, parish and political magazines and pamphlets, memoirs and oral histories, photos and war memorials..A provocative and important book.it remains a valuable read.
FAMILY & COMMUNITY HISTORY
... Read moreA fascinating, nuanced account of the manner in which the characters and communities in one corner of south-eastern England shaped the forms and styles of memorials erected in the years following the Armistice.... Highly recommended.
CERCLES
An excellent piece of original research, and an engaging study of how the fallen of the Great War were remembered through observance and memorial.
MILITARY HISTORY MONTHLY
A very good and very readable detailed case study.
ARMCHAIR AUCTIONS
The war memorials of the 1914-1918 war are to be found everywhere in the British Isles....Through the meticulous scholarship of Mark Connelly, we can once again hear the voices of those who created them.
ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW
A deep knowledge of memoirs, newspaper files, and local archives enables Connelly to show the communitarian codes that underlay the war memorial movement as well as the conflicts and divisions these activities occasioned.
ALBION
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