The searchers : the quest for the lost of the First World War /
by Sackville-West, Robert.
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BookPublisher: London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021Description: xxi, 336 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781526613158 (hbk.) :; 1526613158 (hbk.) :.Classification number: 940.48 SACSubject(s): 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 WarSummary: 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.
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| 940.4725 JON The road to En-dor: a true story of cunning wartime escape | 940.4753 FEI Lady under fire on the Western Front: | 940.4754 CRE Dorothea's war: the diaries of a First World War nurse | 940.48 SAC The searchers : the quest for the lost of the First World War / | 940.481 ART Lest we forget: forgotten voices from 1914-1945 | 940.481 FAT Fateful battleline | 940.481 LOV Love letters of the Great War |
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.
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