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Gavin Stamp
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Format: Book
Pages: 214
Publisher: Profile Books
Date Published: Jul 2006
Stock Code: 59066
Binding: Paperback
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The Thiepval Arch, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, is the principle, tangible expression of the defining event in Britain's experience and memory of the Great War - the disastrous first day of the Battle of the Somme. It bears the names of 73,000 soldiers whose bodies were never found at the end of that bloody and futile campaign. Visited by tens of thousands of tourists, it holds notable elements of the 20th century while casting a shadow into the future, extending beyond the dead of the Holocaust to the "disappeared" of South America and Tianenmen.
A brilliant study of arguably the finest structure erected by any British architect in the 20th century, The Memorial to the Missing of the Somme tells the story of the memorial - how it commemorates the war dead, its architectural importance and its wider historical significance and resonance today.
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