Epitaphs of The Great War

Passchendaele

Sarah Wearne

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Uniform Press
01 June 2017

Memorials, monuments; Genealogy, heraldry, names & honours; First World War; Memorials & rolls of honour

Series: Epitaphs of The Great War

Limited by the Imperial War Graves Commission to sixty-six characters - far more restrictive than Twitter's 140-character rule- these inscriptions are masterpieces of compact emotion. But, as Sarah Wearne says, their enforced brevity means that many inscriptions rely on the reader being able to pick up on the references and allusions, or recognise the quotations - and many twenty-first-century readers don't. Consequently she has selected one hundred inscriptions from the battlefield cemeteries and by expanding the context- religious, literary or personal - she has been able to give full voice to the bereaved.

This collection, the second in a short series, will be published to coincide with the centenary of the opening of the Passchendaele offensive on 31 July1917. Together with Epitaphs of the Great War The Somme, published on 1 July 2016, these books cover the epitaphs of the ordinary and the famous, the privileged and the poor, the generals and the privates and, after a hundred years, give us an insight into what contemporaries believed they had been fighting for and how they viewed the loss of the men they had loved.

Published to coincide with the centenary of the opening of the Battle of Passchendaele (3rd Ypres) A complete study of these epitaphs will be published to coincide with the centenary of the Armistice in 2018

By: Sarah Wearne
Imprint: Uniform Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 180mm, Width: 129mm,
ISBN: 9781910500651
ISBN 10: 1910500658
Series: Epitaphs of The Great War
Pages: 132
Publication Date: 01 June 2017
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for Epitaphs of The Great War: Passchendaele

A touching and beautifully designed little book of epitaphs reproduces some of the words on headstones, along with accounts of the men buried beneath them. -- Spectator