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The Lijssenthoek Cemetery is located in Poperinge, Belgium.
Author : Eric Dermott-Powell
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Page : 118 pages
File Size : 23,47 MB
Release : 1991
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The Lijssenthoek Cemetery is located in Poperinge, Belgium.
Author : Eric Dermott-Powell
Publisher :
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 26,42 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Cemeteries
ISBN : 9781875609079
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Publisher :
Page : 900 pages
File Size : 30,45 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Australia
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Author : Bowker
Publisher : Bowker-Saur
Page : 1118 pages
File Size : 34,84 MB
Release : 1998-04
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781864520156
"...excellent coverage...essential to worldwide bibliographic coverage."--AMERICAN REFERENCE BOOKS ANNUAL. This comprehensive reference provides current finding & ordering information on more than 75,000 in-print books published in or about Australia, or written by Australian authors, organized by title, author, & keyword. You'll also find brief profiles of more than 7,000 publishers & distributors whose titles are represented, as well as information on trade associations, local agents of overseas publishers, literary awards, & more. From D.W. Thorpe.
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Page : 1400 pages
File Size : 23,40 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Australia
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Author : Paul Chapman
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 42,3 MB
Release : 2016-06-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1473850967
This is a comprehensive and highly emotive volume, borne of years of intensive research and many trips to the battlefields of the Great War. It seeks to humanise the Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, to offer the reader a chance to engage with the personal stories of the soldiers whose names have been chiseled there in stone. Poignant stories of camaraderie, tragic twists of fate and noble sacrifice have been collated in an attempt to bring home the reality of war and the true extent of its tragic cost. It is hoped that visitors to the battlefields, whether their relatives are listed within or not, will find their experience enriched by having access to this treasure trove of stories.
Author : Eric McGeer
Publisher : Uniform Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,81 MB
Release : 2017-03
Category : Cemeteries
ISBN : 9781910500668
"There could be no truer witness to the enormity of the First World War, and its terrible cost in lives, than the memorials and war cemeteries along the old Western Front. In Canada, no less than in the other dominions of the British Empire, the war left a conflicting legacy of pride and sorrow that endures to this day. The soaring Vimy Memorial, the Brooding Soldier, and the monuments honouring Canada's significant contribution to the Allied victory symbolize the spirit of shared sacrifice and nationhood that emerged from the crucible of the war; but alongside this official commemoration there exists a poignant, strangely overlooked, record of the grief and search for consolation among the Canadian populace in the years after the Armistice. This has come down in the personal inscriptions which the Imperial War Graves Commission invited next of kin to have engraved on the headstones of the fallen. Simple, heartfelt, often gems of compression, these farewells preserve the voice of Canada's bereaved, the parents, the wives, the children, who were left to mourn and to seek meaning and comfort in their loss. This book offers an anthology of epitaphs drawn from the war cemeteries where Canadian soldiers lie buried in Flanders and France. Photographs and war art transport readers to the sites, and each chapter reviews the sources and themes of the epitaphs to establish their place in the national memory of the ordeal of 1914-1918."--Book jacket.
Author : Lesley Muir
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Page : 470 pages
File Size : 38,96 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Canterbury (N.S.W.)
ISBN : 9780957939127
Author : Peter Barton
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 12,79 MB
Release : 2014-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1472119371
Intended as a diversion from the Somme, Fromelles was was the worst-ever military disaster in Australian history, and is recognised as one of the bloodiest and most useless battles of the First World War. With the recent discovery of a mass grave and the disinterment of many diggers, it has now entered national consciousness in the same way as Gallipoli. In one night, British and Australian soldiers suffered casualties equivalent to the total toll of the Boer War, Korean War and Vietnam War combined. Barton's research has revealed that the Australian frontline troops gave away critical Allied secrets to the Germans... which not only led directly to the Fromelles slaughter - but also contributed to the failure of the Somme offensive as a whole. The Lost Legions of Fromelles is the most authoritative book on this staggering disaster, combining new scholarship on the battle with an account of recent events to dispel many myths in a rich and compelling history.
Author : Earl Douglas Haig Haig
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Page : 472 pages
File Size : 36,9 MB
Release : 1919
Category : World War, 1914-1918
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