Empires of the Dead: How One Man’s Vision Led to the Creation of WWI’s War Graves. David Crane
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      EMPIRES OF THE DEAD

       How One Man’s Vision Led to the Creation of WWI’s War Graves

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      DAVID CRANE

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      CONTENTS

       COVER

       TITLE PAGE

       MAPS

       4. Consolidation

       5. The Imperial War Graves Commission

       6. Kenyon

       7. Opposition

       8. The Task

       9. Completion

       10. Keeping the Faith

       PICTURE SECTION

       FOOTNOTES

       NOTES

       SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

       INDEX

       ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

       ALSO BY DAVID CRANE

       COPYRIGHT

       ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

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       LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

      1. Equestrian Monument to Sir John Hawkwood by Paolo Uccello, 1436, fresco transferred to canvas, post restoration (Duomo, Florence, Italy / The Bridgeman Art Library)

      2. A soldier salutes at a grave prepared for the remains of New Zealand soldiers killed during the Dardanelles campaign at Chunuk Bair on 8 August 1915 (© Imperial War Museum, Q 14340)

      3. Prince of Wales with Fabian Ware and Edwin Lutyens at the unveiling of Lutyens’s Memorial to the Missing of the Somme at Thiepval on 1 August 1932 (courtesy Commonwealth War Graves Commission)

      4. Vendresse Cemetery, France (courtesy Honor Clerk)

      5. Rudyard Kipling and his son John on the yacht Bantam, c.1910 (Private Collection / Bridgeman Art Library)

      6. Caricature depicting a confrontation between Edwin Lutyens and Herbert Baker by William H. Nicholls, c.1914 (courtesy RIBA Library Drawings & Archives Collections)

      7. Charles Holden by Francis Dodd, oil on canvas (© The Art Workers’ Guild Trustees Limited, London, UK / The Bridgeman Art Library)

      8. The main entrance to the Serre Road Cemetery, No. 2, France (© Maurice Savage / Alamy)

      9. Serre Road Cemetery, No. 2, France (© Maurice Savage / Alamy)

      10. Etaples Cemetery, France (courtesy Honor Clerk)

      11. ‘The Cemetery, Etaples, 1919’ by Sir John Lavery, 1919, oil on canvas

      12. The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme, France, c.1935 (© Hulton Archive / Getty Images)

      13. Stonemason hand-engraving a Canadian headstone destined for a cemetery in France (courtesy Commonwealth War Graves Commission)

      14. Ypres, Belgium in ruins, 1919 (Photo by W. L. King)

      15. ‘Menin Gate at Midnight’ by Will Longstaff, 1927, oil on canvas (courtesy Australian War Memorial)

      16. Reginald СКАЧАТЬ