TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sackville-West,Robert
TI  - The searchers: the quest for the lost of the First World War 
SN  - 9781526613158 (hbk.) :
AV  - D639.M56 
U1  - 940.48 SAC 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - London
PB  - Bloomsbury Publishing
KW  - World War, 1914-1918
KW  - Missing in action
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Repatriation of war dead
KW  - Warfare and Defence
KW  - eflch
KW  - ukslc
KW  - European history
KW  - thema
KW  - First World War
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - 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
ER  -