In 1917 a remarkable organisation came into being. Its brief was vastly ambitious: to commemorate the 1,100,00 men of the British Empire who lost their lives in the First World War. The Imperial War Graves Commission was the creation of one man, Sir Fabian Ware, whose energy and determination brought together some of the greatest designers and architects of the early twentieth century. This book looks at the history of the war graves for British and Commonwealth servicemen and women, and examines how modern remembrance has been shaped by the work of Ware and his contemporaries after the First World War.
By:
Julie Summers Imprint: Shire Publications Country of Publication: United Kingdom Volume: No. 596 Dimensions:
Height: 210mm,
Width: 149mm,
Spine: 3mm
Weight: 170g ISBN:9780747807896 ISBN 10: 0747807892 Series:Shire Library Pages: 64 Publication Date:01 May 2012 Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
?Introduction /A Great Change for the Great War /A Worldwide Task /Memorials to the Missing and the Second World War /Commemoration of the War Dead Since 1945 /An Unchanging Task in a Changing World /Further Reading /Places to Visit /Index
Julie Summers is an author and historian with an MA inarchitecture from the Courtauld Institute of Art. She has written several books on the Second World War and is the author of Remembered, a history of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.