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Format:	Hardcover	Publication Year:	2007
Subject:	Military & War	Special Attributes:	1st Edition
	War Graves	Language:	English
	--	Condition:	New

Remembered
The History of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission

By Julie Summers
Photography by Brian Bishop

Published in 2007 by Merrill, UK
HARDCOVER, 191 Pages
Size - 30.5cm * 30.5cm (large)

Fully Illustrated!


		Condition

The book is in new condition, the dustjacket is in new condition and is fitted with a custom-made, heavy duty protective cover.


		About the Book

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission honours the 1,700,000 men and women of the Commonwealth forces who died in the two world wars. Founded by the visionary Fabian Ware, the Commission was established by Royal Charter in 1917. Its guiding principle was equality of treatment for all the war dead, irrespective of military or civil rank, race or creed. Since its inception, the Commission has constructed more than 2500 cemeteries and plots, and today looks after graves and memorials in some 23,000 locations in over 100 countries.

Published to coincide with the ninetieth anniversary of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Remembered highlights the importance of the Commission's work not only in commemorating the dead, but also in preserving in perpetuity some of the most significant heritage sites of the twentieth century. Drawing on both archival material and personal reminiscences and anecdotes, Julie Summers traces the history of this remarkable organization and explores the outstanding contributions made to the Commission's work by such individuals as Rudyard Kipling, its first literary adviser, and the renowned architects Edwin Lutvens, Reginald Blomfield and Herbert Baker.

Specially commissioned images by award-winning photographer Brian Harris provide a stunning, frequently moving tribute to those servicemen and women commemorated in the Commission's cemeteries and on its memorials around the world, from isolated graves in Newfoundland, Canada, to the majestic silent cities at Tyne Cot in Belgium, Etaples in France, El Alamein in Egypt and Chungkai in Thailand, and the extraordinary tranquility of the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey. The first major illustrated history of its kind for forty years, this beautifully produced book serves to remind us of the sacrifice made by so many and of the enduring relevance of the Commission's work in preserving their memory.

Julie Summers is a writer and historian. She is the author of Fearless on Everest:The Quest for Sandi Irvine (2000), The Shackelton Voyages: A Pictorial Anthology of the Polar Explorer and Edwardian Hero (2002) and The Colonel of Tamarkan: PhilipToosey and the Bridge on the River Kwai (2005). She previously worked as an exhibitions organizer at the Royal Academy ofArts, London; the Henry Moore Foundation, Hertfordshire; and the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.

Brian Harris has worked as a staff photographer for The Times newspaper, and was appointed chief photographer of The Independent when it launched in 1986. He has received many awards, including the prestigious What the Papers Say Photographer of the Year Award in 1990 for his work in Eastern Europe recording the collapse of communism.

Ian Hislop is editor of Private Eye magazine. He has been a team captain on the BBC quiz show Have I Got News for you since 1990. In 2005 he presented the Channel 4 TV series Not Forgotten, about First World War Memorials.

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