Book 2007

A distant grief

Publisher: University of Western Australia Press
Language: English
Published: 2007

Cemeteries -- Europe
Soldiers monuments -- Europe
War and family -- Australia
Grief and Bereavement

In May 1919, six months after the end of the Great War, American journalist F. H. Simmonds stood on the former battlefields in France. He witnessed a wrecked and desolate landscape: 'shell-torn hill sides', the scattered and ruined materials of war, and, interspersed among all this, the graves of thousands of soldiers.