David Crane

Empires of the Dead

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

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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

Autorenporträt

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. His `Empires of the Dead¿ was shortlisted for the 2013 Samuel Johnson Prize. He lives in north-west Scotland.