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020			_a9781526613134 _q(electronic bk.)
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100	1		_aSackville-West, Robert. _eauthor .
245	1	4	_aThe Searchers : _bThe Quest for the Lost of the First World War l / _cRobert Sackville-West
264		1	_aLondon : _bBloomsbury Publishing Plc, _c2021.
300			_a336 pages ; _c24cm .
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337			_acomputer _2rdamedia _bn
338			_aonline resource _2rdacarrier _bnc
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aCover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedications -- Contents -- Prologue -- 1 In Search of the Missing: The Enquiry Department -- 2 E. M. Forster and a Labour of Love -- 3 The Search for a National Shrine: The Cenotaph and the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior -- 4 Rudyard Kipling and the War Graves Commission: The Search for a Place to Grieve -- 5 Searching for Solace in the Afterlife -- 6 Pilgrimage: The Search for Meaning -- 7 Systematic Searching -- 8 Fromelles and Beyond: The Search Goes On -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Prologue -- 1 In Search of the Missing: The Enquiry Department
505	8		_a2 E. M. Forster and a Labour of Love -- 3 The Search for a National Shrine: The Cenotaph and the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior -- 4 Rudyard Kipling and the War Graves Commission: The Search for a Place to Grieve -- 5 Searching for Solace in the Afterlife -- 6 Pilgrimage: The Search for Meaning -- 7 Systematic Searching -- 8 Fromelles and Beyond: The Search Goes On -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgements -- Picture Credits -- Index -- Plate 1 -- Plate 2
520			_aSHORTLISTED FOR THE HISTORICAL WRITERS' ASSOCIATION CROWN AWARDS 2022 'Compelling and often horrifying' THE TIMES Best Paperbacks of 2022 The epic, moving stories of Britain's search to recover, identify and honour the missing soldiers of the First World War By the end of the First World War, the whereabouts of more than half a million British soldiers were unknown. Most were presumed dead, lost forever under the battlefields of northern France and Flanders. In The Searchers, Robert Sackville-West brings together the extraordinary, moving accounts of those who dedicated their lives to the search for the missing. These stories reveal the remarkable lengths to which people will go to give meaning to their loss: Rudyard Kipling's quest for his son's grave; E.M. Forster's conversations with traumatised soldiers in hospital in Alexandria; desperate attempts to communicate with the spirits of the dead; the campaign to establish the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior; and the exhumation and reburial in military cemeteries of hundreds of thousands of bodies. It was a search that would span a century: from the department set up to investigate the fate of missing comrades in the war's aftermath to the present day, when DNA profiling continues to aid efforts to recover, identify and honour these men. As the rest of the country found ways to repair and move on, countless families were consumed by this mission, undertaking arduous, often hopeless, journeys to discover what happened to their husbands, brothers and sons. Giving prominence to the personal battles of those left behind, The Searchers brings the legacy of war vividly to life in a testament to the bravery, compassion and resilience of the human spirit.
648		7	_a1914-1918 _2fast
650		4	_aWorld War, 1914-1918 _xMissing in action _zGreat Britain.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aSackville-West, Robert _tThe Searchers _dLondon : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,c2021 _z9781526613158
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