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War Memorials (Paperback)
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War Memorials (Paperback)
Series: Britain's Heritage
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The last veteran of the First World War has long since died, and
those of the Second are getting ever scarcer, but public interest
in war memorials continues unabated. The tragic impact of world
events on local communities over the past century has demanded
memorials to keep the dead in mind, and pay tribute to their
sacrifice. Communities have been raising memorials to their war
dead since the Middle Ages but the largest number were raised as a
result of the First World War. War memorials were erected in their
thousands after 1918: bronze Tommies and stone wayside crosses
became commonplace, and can attain high levels of artistic
refinement. Britain's great cities raised magnificent monuments, as
did regiments, railway companies, schools and private families.
Among them are truly outstanding works of monumental art by
sculptors such as Charles Sargeant Jagger, Gilbert Ledward and Eric
Gill. Others took practical form: a swimming pool or a village
hall, or a stained glass window. Their range and variety are huge,
and their number is uncountable: no agreed tally exists. This book
is part of the Britain's Heritage series, which provides definitive
introductions to the riches of Britain's past, and is the perfect
way to get acquainted with war memorials in all their variety.
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