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The Memorial to the Missing of the Somme (Paperback, Main)
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The Memorial to the Missing of the Somme (Paperback, Main)
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Edwin Lutyens' Memorial to the Missing of the Somme at Thiepval in
Northern France, visited annually by tens of thousands of tourists,
is arguably the finest structure erected by any British architect
in the twentieth century. It is the principal, tangible expression
of the defining event in Britain's experience and memory of the
Great War, the first day of the Battle of the Somme on 1 July 1916,
and it bears the names of 73,000 soldiers whose bodies were never
found at the end of that bloody and futile campaign. This brilliant
study by an acclaimed architectural historian tells the origin of
the memorial in the context of commemorating the war dead; it
considers the giant classical brick arch in architectural terms,
and also explores its wider historical significance and its
resonances today. So much of the meaning of the twentieth century
is concentrated here; the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing casts a
shadow into the future, a shadow which extends beyond the dead of
the Holocaust, to the Gulag, to the 'disappeared' of South America
and of Tianenmen. Reissued in a beautiful and striking new edition
for the centenary of the Somme.
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