A distant grief
Subtitle: Australians, war graves and the Great War
By: Bart Ziino.
Publisher: University of Western Australia Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Crawley, W.A
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9781920694890
Subjects: Soldiers' bodies, Disposition of -- Europe; Cemeteries -- Europe; Soldiers monuments -- Europe; World War, 1914-1918 -- Australia; War and family -- Australia; Grief and Bereavement
First sentence: In May 1919, six months after the end of the Great War, American journalist F. H. Simmonds stood on the former battlefields in France. He witnessed a wrecked and desolate landscape: 'shell-torn hill sides', the scattered and ruined materials of war, and, interspersed among all this, the graves of thousands of soldiers.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 224-235) and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements
pagenum: vii; title: List of Illustrations
pagenum: x; title: Abbreviations
pagenum: xi; title: Introduction
pagenum: 1; label: 1
title: Imagined Graves
pagenum: 12; label: 2
title: The Sacred Obligation
pagenum: 36; label: 3
title: Gallipoli and Australian Anxiety
pagenum: 59; label: 4
title: Agents for the Bereaved: The Western Front
pagenum: 82; label: 5
title: The Imperial War Graves Commission
pagenum: 107; label: 6
title: Transplanting the Front
pagenum: 136; label: 7
title: Pilgrimage
pagenum: 163; title: Conclusion
pagenum: 187; title: Notes
pagenum: 193; title: Bibliography
pagenum: 224; title: Index
pagenum: 237