David Crane

Broschiertes Buch

Empires of the Dead

How One Man's Vision Led to the Creation of Wwi's War Graves

Beschreibung

Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction. The extraordinary and forgotten story of the building of the World War One cemeteries, due to the efforts of one remarkable man, Fabian Ware.

Autor

David Crane's first book, 'Lord Byron's Jackal' was published to great acclaim in 1998, and his second, 'The Kindness of Sisters' published in 2002, is a groundbreaking work of romantic biography. In 2005 the highly acclaimed 'Scott of the Antarctic' was published, followed by 'Men of War', a collection of 19th Century naval biographies, in 2009. Crane lives in north-west Scotland.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 200mm x 129mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 304g
• ISBN-13: 9780007456680
• ISBN-10: 0007456689
• Artikelnr.: 40467531