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Unknown soldiers : the story of the missing of the First World War / Neil Hanson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hanson, Neil.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hub, Paul, 1890-.
- Hub, Paul.
- Reader, Alec, 1897-1916.
- Reader, Alec.
- Siebold, George.
- World War, 1914-1918--Missing in action--Biography.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- Missing in action.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 474 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First American edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Knopf, 2006.
- Summary:
- In a moving story of how the grave of the Unknown Soldier and the ritual of Remembrance Day came to be, this text examines the valiant effort of Rev. David Railton who convinced Prime Minister Lloyd George to create a symbolic burial of one unknown soldier.
- Notes:
- Originally published as: The unknown soldier. London : Doubleday, 2005.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [435]-455) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0307263703
- OCLC:
- 61463755
- Publisher Number:
- 9780307263704
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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