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The Searchers - The Quest for the Lost of the First World War (Hardcover)
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The Searchers - The Quest for the Lost of the First World War (Hardcover)
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**Selected as a Book of the Year by the Spectator and the Daily
Telegraph** 'Fascinating ... carefully researched and beautifully
written' DAVID DIMBLEBY 'Utterly riveting' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
'Robert-Sackville West writes tenderly about death and remembrance'
GERARD DEGROOT, THE TIMES ______________________ 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. In
The Searchers, Robert Sackville-West brings together the
extraordinary, moving accounts of those who dedicated their lives
to the search for the missing. These stories reveal the remarkable
lengths to which people will go to give meaning to their loss:
Rudyard Kipling's quest for his son's grave; E.M. Forster's
conversations with traumatised soldiers in hospital in Alexandria;
desperate attempts to communicate with the spirits of the dead; the
campaign to establish the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior; and the
exhumation and reburial in military cemeteries of hundreds of
thousands of bodies. It was 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. Giving prominence to the deep,
personal battles of those left behind, The Searchers brings the
legacy of war vividly to life in a testament to the bravery,
compassion and resilience of the human spirit. 'Remarkable' JOHN
CAREY, SUNDAY TIMES 'This is an outstanding book' LITERARY REVIEW
'Deeply moving' DAILY MAIL
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