{"product_id":"the-searchers-the-quest-for-the-lost-of-the-first-world-war-9781526613158","title":"The Searchers: The Quest for the Lost of the First World War","description":"\u003cp\u003eSelected as a Book of the Year by the Spectator and the Daily Telegraph  Fascinating ... carefully researched and beautifully written DAVID DIMBLEBY  Utterly riveting SUNDAY TELEGRAPH  Robert-Sackville West writes tenderly about death and remembrance GERARD DEGROOT  THE TIMES    By the end of the First World War  the whereabouts of more than half a million British soldiers were unknown. Most were presumed dead  lost forever under the battlefields of northern France and Flanders.  In The Searchers  Robert Sackville-West brings together the extraordinary  moving accounts of those who dedicated their lives to the search for the missing. These stories reveal the remarkable lengths to which people will go to give meaning to their loss: Rudyard Kiplings quest for his sons grave; E.M. Forsters conversations with traumatised soldiers in hospital in Alexandria; desperate attempts to communicate with the spirits of the dead; the campaign to establish the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior; and the exhumation and reburial in military cemeteries of hundreds of thousands of bodies.  It was a search that would span a century: from the department set up to investigate the fate of missing comrades in the wars aftermath  to the present day  when DNA profiling continues to aid efforts to recover  identify and honour these men. As the rest of the country found ways to repair and move on  countless families were consumed by this mission  undertaking arduous  often hopeless  journeys to discover what happened to their husbands  brothers and sons.  Giving prominence to the deep  personal battles of those left behind  The Searchers brings the legacy of war vividly to life in a testament to the bravery  compassion and resilience of the human spirit.  Remarkable JOHN CAREY  SUNDAY TIMES  This is an outstanding book LITERARY REVIEW  Deeply moving DAILY MAIL\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647083700277,"sku":"ByrdShop_1526613158","price":38.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781526613158.jpg?v=1781688271","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-searchers-the-quest-for-the-lost-of-the-first-world-war-9781526613158","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}