Description
The epic, moving stories of Britain's search to recover, identify and honour the missing soldiers of the First World War
About the Author
Robert Sackville-West worked in publishing after studying history at Oxford University. He now chairs Knole Estates, the property and investment company which - in parallel with the National Trust - runs the Sackville family's interests at Knole, the house in Kent where his family have lived for 400 years. Robert is the author of the critically acclaimed Inheritance: The Story of Knole and the Sackvilles (2010) and The Disinherited (2014).
Reviews
This carefully researched and beautifully written book reveals the determination of the families of those who have lost loved ones killed in war to find out what happened to them and where their bodies lie. Each year at the Cenotaph, a memorial whose origins are described here in fascinating detail, we see the public manifestation of a private grief that never fades. There may be a commemorative tomb in Westminster Abbey but there is in truth, as Sackville-West explains, no such thing as an Unknown Warrior -- David Dimbleby
A deeply sad but fascinating topic ... Beautifully written -- Michael Portillo * TimesRadio *
Remarkable -- John Carey * Sunday Times *
Robert Sackville-West writes tenderly about death and remembrance ... [He] handles this grim subject with grace. The excruciatingly personal stories he tells convey perfectly that desperate need for closure that so many grieving relatives felt ... His gentle book is fascinating, but never sensational or gratuitously maudlin -- Gerard DeGroot * The Times *
Carefully researched and utterly riveting * Sunday Telegraph *
A fascinating, moving account ... A hidden piece of First World War history is revealed in this sensitive and engrossing study * i paper *
Deeply moving ... [Sackville-West documents] all these grim stories with compassion * Daily Mail *
A scholarly and moving account of those who searched, privately and officially - and still search - for the missing ... Reflects on the meaning of the war's sacrifice and how to commemorate it * Country Life *
Book Information
ISBN 9781526613141
Author Robert Sackville-West
Format Paperback
Page Count 368
Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC