A Distant Grief. Australians, War Graves And The Great War

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: University Of Western Australia Press
Publisher Place: Crawley
Publisher Year: 2007
Edition: First Edition

Description: 241 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout. Sixty Thousand Australians Perished During The First World War, Far From Their Homeland And Their Loved Ones.

Publishers Description: Sixty thousand Australians died during the First World War. This book is the first major study to examine the roles of war graves and cemeteries in private grief and mourning, through archival research of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, the organization responsible for commemorating the million soldiers of the British Empire who died in the war. A Distant Grief reorients and enriches international discussion of reactions to death and commemoration during, and after, the First World War. The author, Bart Ziino, has written on war memorials, Gallipoli, and the Australian memory of war. The thesis on which this book is based won the 2005 Australian Historical Associations Serle Award for the best thesis in Australian History.

ISBN: 9781920694890