A Distant Grief: Australians, War Graves and the Great War
by Bart Ziino
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Sixty thousand Australians died during the First World War. This book is the first major study to examine the roles of war graves and cemeteries in private grief and mourning, through archival research of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, the organization responsible for commemorating the million soldiers of the British Empire who died in the war. A Distant Grief reorients and enriches international discussion of reactions to death and commemoration during, and after, the First World show more War. The author, Bart Ziino, has written on war memorials, Gallipoli, and the Australian memory of war. The thesis on which this book is based won the 2005 Australian Historical Association's Serle Award for the best thesis in Australian History. show lessTags
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Bart Ziino is a lecturer in history at Deakin University, Australia. His publications include A Distant Grief: Australians, War Graves and the Great War (2007) and the co-edited volume The Heritage of War (Routledge, 2012).
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- History, Nonfiction, Anthropology
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- 940.465562 — History & geography History of Europe History of Europe Military History Of World War I Military commemorations Monuments, memorials Asia Middle East
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- D639 .D4 .Z55 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania History (General) World War I (1914-1918)
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