| Description |
1 online resource (214 pages) : illustrations, map, portrait, plans |
| Series |
Wonders of the world |
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Wonders of the world (London, England)
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| Contents |
Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Map; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 The Battle of the Somme; CHAPTER 2 War Memorials; CHAPTER 3 The Architect; CHAPTER 4 The War Graves Commission; CHAPTER 5 Memorials to the Missing; CHAPTER 6 Thiepval; CHAPTER 7 The Design; CHAPTER 8 Legacy; Making a visit?; List of illustrations; Further reading |
| Summary |
Edwin Lutyens' Memorial to the Missing of the Somme at Thiepval in Northern France, visited annually by tens of thousands of tourists, is arguably the finest structure erected by any British architect in the twentieth century. It is the principal, tangible expression of the defining event in Britain's experience and memory of the Great War, the first day of the Battle of the Somme on 1 July 1916, and it bears the names of 73,000 soldiers whose bodies were never found at the end of that bloody and futile campaign. This moving and original study by an acclaimed architectural historian tells the |
| Notes |
Originally published: 2006 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
War memorials -- France -- Thiepval
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Monuments -- France -- Thiepval
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- France -- Thiepval
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Somme, 1st Battle of the, France, 1916.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
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Military campaigns
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Monuments
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War memorials
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France
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France -- Thiepval
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781847650603 |
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1847650600 |
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