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The memorial to the missing of the Somme /
Edwin Lutyens' Memorial to the Missing of the Somme at Thiepval in Northern France, visited annually by tens of thousands of tourists, is arguably the finest structure erected by any British architect in the twentieth century. It is the principal, tangible expression of the defining event in Br...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Profile,
2007, 2006.
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| Colección: | Wonders of the world (London, England)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Edwin Lutyens' Memorial to the Missing of the Somme at Thiepval in Northern France, visited annually by tens of thousands of tourists, is arguably the finest structure erected by any British architect in the twentieth century. It is the principal, tangible expression of the defining event in Britain's experience and memory of the Great War, the first day of the Battle of the Somme on 1 July 1916, and it bears the names of 73,000 soldiers whose bodies were never found at the end of that bloody and futile campaign. This moving and original study by an acclaimed architectural historian tells the. |
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| Notas: | Originally published: 2006. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (214 pages) : illustrations, map, portrait, plans |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781847650603 1847650600 |