UNENDING VIGIL: The History of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Softcover
One million, one hundred thousand men and women lost their lives in the service of the British Empire during the First World War; in the Second, another six hundred thousand from all parts of the Commonwealth made the same sacrifice.
The First World War, which began as a war between professional armies, was very soon to be fought by millions of ordinary citizens turned soldier. Those who died could no longer be "shovelled into a hole...and so forgotten" as had happened, to Thakeray's indignation, at Waterloo, and in May 1917 a new organization, the Imperial War Graves Commission, was founded to provide permanent care for their graves and commemoration for the missing.
The Unending Vigil tells the story of the Commission - of its beginnings on the western Front, and of its work since then, laboring worldwide, often against the odds to turn scenes of desolation and horror into places of peace and haunting beauty
The First World War, which began as a war between professional armies, was very soon to be fought by millions of ordinary citizens turned soldier. Those who died could no longer be "shovelled into a hole...and so forgotten" as had happened, to Thakeray's indignation, at Waterloo, and in May 1917 a new organization, the Imperial War Graves Commission, was founded to provide permanent care for their graves and commemoration for the missing.
The Unending Vigil tells the story of the Commission - of its beginnings on the western Front, and of its work since then, laboring worldwide, often against the odds to turn scenes of desolation and horror into places of peace and haunting beauty
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Philip Longworth was born in London in 1933 and educated at Balliol College, Oxford. He has published a number of books, including The Art of Victory, The Three Emperors and more recently Alexis, Tsar of all the Russias. At present he lectures in the Department of History, McGill University, Montreal. He was made a Knight of Mark Twain for Art of Victory.
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- PublisherPen and Sword
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 1844150046
- ISBN 13 9781844150045
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number3
- Number of pages304
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