Epitaphs of the Great War: Passchendaele
Epitaphs of the Great War Passchendaele is an edited collection of headstone inscriptions from the graves of those killed during the Third Battle of Ypres - Passchendaele. Limited by the Imperial War Graves Commission to sixty-six characters - far more restrictive than Twitter's 140-character rule - these inscriptions are masterpieces of compact emotion. But, as Sarah Wearne says, their enforced brevity means that many inscriptions rely on the reader being able to pick up on the references and allusions, or recognise the quotations - and many twenty-first-century readers don't. Consequently she has selected one hundred inscriptions from the b…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-911604-69-3
- EAN: 9781911604693
- Produktnummer: 27170161
- Verlag: Unicorn Publishing Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 132 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'476 KB
Über den Autor
Sarah Wearne is a military historian. Her current Twitter project, Great War Epitaphs (@wwinscriptions), is publishing an epitaph every day of the centenary of World War I
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