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Epitaphs of the Great War: The Somme

Limited by the Imperial War Graves Commission to 66 letters – and that included counting the space between each word as one letter – this first in a short series of books highlights what The Times called, `the heart of the bereaved`; the thousands of silent voices that `speak` from the war cemeteries. Voices which stand at the opposite end of the commemorative spectrum to the Cenotaph; an austere `silent` tribute to the Empire`s dead, the other a clamour of individual`voices`, each one a personal tribute to an individual and cultural reference from the world which these soldiers and their families lived in.In this book, the selected epitaphs look at a variety of themes, tones and locations from both ordinary and famous backgrounds, the privileged and the poor- the officers and men who all lie in some corner of a foreign field. Second in the series publishing in 2017 will feature epitaphs from the Battle of Passchendaele (1917). A complete study of these epitaphs will be published to coincide with the centenary of the Armistice in 2018

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