A century of remembrance
Clouting, Laura2018
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A century after the end of World War 1, its human toll remains staggering. More than eighteen million people were killed in the war, and the incomprehensible scale of the loss generated a whole new language of memorialisation and remembrance both public and private. 'A Century of Remembrance' draws on the vast collections of the Imperial War Museums to explore the ways in which the dead of World War I were mourned in Great Britain from the end of the war through the 1920s, from the poppy to the cenotaph. In its pages we discover deeply personal remembrances, as families try to cope with unfathomable losses.
Main title:
A century of remembrance / Laura Clouting.
Author:
Clouting, Laura, authorImperial War Museum (Great Britain), publisher
Imprint:
London : Imperial War Museums, [2018]©2018
Collation:
239 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 27 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781912423026 (hbk)
Dewey class:
306.9094109041306.90941
Language:
English
Subject:
Death -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th centuryWorld War, 1914-1918 -- Social aspects -- Great BritainWar memorials -- Great BritainCollective memory -- Great BritainFuneral rites and ceremonies -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th centuryGrief -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
BRN:
2746395