Unknown Soldiers The Story of the Missing of the First World War

Name: Unknown Soldiers The Story of the Missing of the First World War
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ISBN: 9780307276544

ISBN-10: 0307276546

ISBN-13: 9780307276544

Edition: N/A

Authors: Neil Hanson

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The First World War was a conflict of unprecedented ferocity. After the last shot was fired and the troops marched home, approximately three million soldiers remained unaccounted for. An unassuming English chaplain first proposed a symbolic burial in memory of all the missing dead; subsequently the idea was picked up by almost every combatant country. Acclaimed author Neil Hanson focuses on the lives of three soldiers — an Englishman, a German, and an American — using their diaries and letters to offer an unflinching yet compassionate account of the front lines. He describes how each man endured nearly unbearable conditions, skillfully showing how the Western world arrived at the now…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/8/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 512
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English