The searchers : the quest for the lost of the First World War /
Sackville-West, Robert.
The searchers : the quest for the lost of the First World War / Robert Sackville-West. - London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021. - xxi, 336 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
By the end of the First World War, the whereabouts of more than half a million British soldiers were unknown. Most were presumed dead, lost forever under the battlefields of northern France and Flanders. This, however, was only the beginning of a search that would span a century: from the department set up to investigate the fate of missing comrades in the war's aftermath, to the present day, when DNA profiling continues to aid efforts to recover, identify and honour these men. As the rest of the country found ways to repair and move on, countless families were consumed by this mission, undertaking arduous, often hopeless, journeys to discover what happened to their husbands, brothers and sons. In 'The Searchers', Robert Sackville-West brings together the extraordinary, moving accounts of those who dedicated their lives to the search for the missing.
9781526613158 (hbk.) : 25.00 1526613158 (hbk.) : 25.00
World War, 1914-1918--Missing in action--Great Britain.
World War, 1914-1918--Repatriation of war dead--Great Britain.
Warfare and Defence.
Warfare and Defence.
European history.
First World War.
D639.M56
940.48 SAC
The searchers : the quest for the lost of the First World War / Robert Sackville-West. - London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021. - xxi, 336 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
By the end of the First World War, the whereabouts of more than half a million British soldiers were unknown. Most were presumed dead, lost forever under the battlefields of northern France and Flanders. This, however, was only the beginning of a search that would span a century: from the department set up to investigate the fate of missing comrades in the war's aftermath, to the present day, when DNA profiling continues to aid efforts to recover, identify and honour these men. As the rest of the country found ways to repair and move on, countless families were consumed by this mission, undertaking arduous, often hopeless, journeys to discover what happened to their husbands, brothers and sons. In 'The Searchers', Robert Sackville-West brings together the extraordinary, moving accounts of those who dedicated their lives to the search for the missing.
9781526613158 (hbk.) : 25.00 1526613158 (hbk.) : 25.00
World War, 1914-1918--Missing in action--Great Britain.
World War, 1914-1918--Repatriation of war dead--Great Britain.
Warfare and Defence.
Warfare and Defence.
European history.
First World War.
D639.M56
940.48 SAC