Description
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.
About the Author
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. Author of Epitaphs of the Great War: Passchendaele 9781910500651 and Epitaphs of the Great War: The Somme 9781910500521
Book Information
ISBN 9781911604624
Author Sarah Wearne
Format Hardback
Page Count 132
Imprint Uniform Press
Publisher Unicorn Publishing Group