Epitaphs of The Great War: The Last 100 Days

Epitaphs of The Great War: The Last 100 Days

AngličtinaPevná vazba
Wearne Sarah
Unicorn Publishing Group
EAN: 9781911604624
Skladem u distributora
Předpokládané dodání ve čtvrtek, 9. května 2024
339 Kč
Běžná cena: 377 Kč
Sleva 10 %
ks
Chcete tento titul ještě dnes?
knihkupectví Megabooks Praha Korunní
není dostupné
Librairie Francophone Praha Štěpánská
není dostupné
knihkupectví Megabooks Ostrava
není dostupné
knihkupectví Megabooks Olomouc
není dostupné
knihkupectví Megabooks Plzeň
není dostupné
knihkupectví Megabooks Brno
není dostupné
knihkupectví Megabooks Hradec Králové
není dostupné
knihkupectví Megabooks České Budějovice
není dostupné

Podrobné informace

It’s the casualties that dominate our thinking on the First World War – the dead – all those thousands of soldiers who lie buried on the battlefields of the world. Who were they? Where did they come from? What were they fighting for? How did their families cope? Can we ever know? In the case of the British we can get an idea because Britain, alone among the combatant nations, allowed their next-of-kin space for a personal inscription on the War Grave Commission’s headstones. And these inscriptions give us a piercing glimpse into the minds of the men and women of the British Empire who mourned their dead; into their pride, love, patriotism, dignity, anger, grief, resignation and despair. It’s as if the stones speak – and some of them do: “Remember whatever happens it will have been worth while”; “Mother dear I must go”; “I would not have missed it for anything”, “Why?”.

Epitaphs of the Great War – The Last 100 Days is the third instalment in an edited collection of headstone inscriptions from the graves of those killed during 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 containing as they do the distilled essence of thousands of responses to the war. However, their enforced brevity means that many inscriptions relied on the reader being able to pick up on the references and allusions, or recognise the quotations – and many twenty-first-century readers do not. In this selection of one hundred inscriptions from the battlefield cemeteries, the author, by expanding the context – religious, literary or personal – has been able to give full voice to the bereaved. This volume covers those killed in France and Flanders during the period commonly known as the last 100 days of the war, a period from 8 August to 11 November 1918.
EAN 9781911604624
ISBN 1911604627
Typ produktu Pevná vazba
Vydavatel Unicorn Publishing Group
Datum vydání 6. srpna 2018
Stránky 132
Jazyk English
Rozměry 178 x 127
Země United Kingdom
Autoři Wearne Sarah
Série Epitaphs of The Great War