Edwin Lutyens' Memorial to the Missing of the Somme at Thiepval in Northern France, visited annually by tens of thousands of tourists, is arguably the finest structure erected by any British architect in the twentieth century. It is the principal, tangible expression of the defining event in Britain's experience and memory of the Great War, the first day of the Battle of the Somme on 1 July 1916, and it bears the names of 73,000 soldiers whose bodies were never found at the end of that bloody and futile campaign.
| ISBN: | 9781781255063 |
| Publication date: | 31st March 2016 |
| Author: | Gavin Stamp |
| Publisher: | Profile Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 225 pages |
| Series: | Wonders of the World |
| Primary Genre | History |
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Edwin Lutyens' Memorial to the Missing of the Somme at Thiepval in Northern France, visited annually by tens of thousands of tourists, is arguably the finest structure erected by any British architect in the twentieth century. It is the principal, tangible expression of the defining event in Britain's experience and memory of the Great War, the first day of the Battle of the Somme on 1 July 1916, and it bears the names of 73,000 soldiers whose bodies were never found at the end of that bloody and futile campaign.
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The Memorial to the Missing of the Somme is available in Paperback
The Memorial to the Missing of the Somme was written by Gavin Stamp and published by Profile Books Ltd
The Memorial to the Missing of the Somme has 225 pages
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