Publisher:
New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 2005
474 pp, large 8vo (9 1/2" H). B&w photographs, map. "The First World War was a conflict of unprecedented ferocity that unleashed such demons as mechanized warfare and mass death on the twentieth century. After the last shot was fired and the troops marched home, approximately three million soldiers remained unaccounted for. Some bodies were found, but they bore no trace of identification; many more men had been blown to smithereens or had simply vanished into battlefields where as many as a hundred shells had fallen on every square yard. An unassuming English chaplain first proposed a...
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