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Visiting the Fallen - Arras Memorials (Hardcover)
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Visiting the Fallen - Arras Memorials (Hardcover)
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'These intolerably nameless names', as Siegfried Sassoon referred
to them, should never be forgotten or ignored, and yet they cascade
so relentlessly that they are often difficult to grapple with;
within a very short space of time we are inclined to switch off; we
soon start to lose our awareness of individual names as we become
overwhelmed by the sheer torrent of them; our senses simply become
overloaded to the point where we are only aware of the enormity of
what stands before us. We can no more get to know the men behind
the names than we can get to know people by reading their names in
a telephone directory, and yet it is possible to breathe life into
'these intolerably nameless names' by uncovering and telling their
stories. This book aims to do just that. It takes the visitor
effortlessly through each of the four memorials in turn,
highlighting hundreds of individual men and officers and explaining
who they were, what they did, and how they died. The four memorials
covered in the book are the Arras Memorial, the Canadian National
Memorial on Vimy Ridge, the Vis-en-Artois Memorial and the Royal
Flying Services Memorial.The author takes the reader through the
officers and men in the order in which they appear on the memorials
in this 'Who's Who' guide that also provides detailed coverage of
gallantry awards and citations and is a superb point of reference
for anyone visiting Arras and its battlefields. Among the many
characters and personalities are two brothers with a choice over
whether to fight for Britain or Germany, a man who played a key
part in deciding which aircraft to commission for the RAF in the
run up to the Second World War, a man who gave Winston Churchill a
flying lesson, a footballer who played for both Manchester City and
Manchester United and who was never far from controversy, a man
whose conscience was finally swayed by the sinking of the
Lusitania, the man who created 'Winnipeg' Crater, a man who crossed
the snow-bound Andes in order to enlist and many, many others.
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