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The Quick and the Dead Fallen Soldiers and Their Families in the Great War Richard Van Emden 9780747597797 Books

Great book showing a new side of the aftermath of this horrible war. Thorough but never boring. Full of personal stories that help to ilustrate the points the author is making.

Heartbreaking sometimes too.


Tags : The Quick and the Dead: Fallen Soldiers and Their Families in the Great War [Richard Van Emden] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. At the end of the First World War more than 192, 000 wives had lost their husbands, and nearly 400, 000 children had lost their fathers. A further half a million children had lost one or more siblings. Appallingly,Richard Van Emden,The Quick and the Dead: Fallen Soldiers and Their Families in the Great War,Bloomsbury UK,0747597790

The Quick and the Dead Fallen Soldiers and Their Families in the Great War Richard Van Emden 9780747597797 Books Reviews

After a dry spell of not reading any Great War related books, this was on my 'to read' list and I finally got around to reading it. Took a version with me to read on a battlefield trip to the Somme, but didn't get around to reading it until I returned and it was probably not the best time to read it as I was feeling very emotional about it all. Will buy a paper copy at some point as a 'keeper' for my bookshelves

An excellent book about an aspect of the war that has interested me for a while. The effect the war had on those left behind and I can see why the 'pebble in the pond' effect of this terrible period in time has rippled down through the years and had an impact on subsequent generations including family members of mine

Thought I wouldn't be able to get past the part about Lily Baron, the ninety-eight year old lady visiting her father's grave at Bourlon Wood. 'He had been killed during the Battle of Cambrai back in November 1917 when she was just five years old. She left a little note on his grave, "Thank-you for five years of real happiness - I've missed you all my life' That really affected me, as did other accounts and I had to stop reading for a time.

There is a lot of previously unpublished source material from letters and diaries etc.
There is a chapter on The Missing and how so many were lost and remain so today and the heart-rending and fruitless search for family members for the loved ones who never came home.

It's easy to forget while researching individual service personnel that for every name, rank and number there were family members back home who suffered terribly because of their loss and not only emotionally but financially too. This bit sums it up for me, written by Private Stephen Graham '...For dying was not the hardest thing; the hardest thing was plunging one's home into sorrow.'

*We came across the grave of Roland Leighton by chance on a recent trip and the amount of crosses next to it drew our attention to it and then I remembered who he was
tE TITLE IS A MISNOMER.
THIS STORY NEEDED TO BE TOLD. IT IS ABOUT THE EFFECTS OF THE WAR ON THOSE AT HOME AND ON INDIVIDUALS AT THE FRONT
Brings World War I to life like nothing else--and highly gripping for veterans' families of ALL wars.
Great book showing a new side of the aftermath of this horrible war. Thorough but never boring. Full of personal stories that help to ilustrate the points the author is making.

Heartbreaking sometimes too.