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Books of Interest

By Nicholas Philpot
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Hurst, Sidney C: The Silent Cities, 1929 (An illustrated guide, with maps & directions to the cemeteries & memorials in France & Belgium: the book that inspired the founders of the website)

The Times: War Graves of the Empire, 1928 (Reproduction of a special number of the newspaper, published for the tenth anniversary of the Armistice; many early photos, including Gallipoli, Mesopotamia etc)

Geurst, Jeroen: The Cemeteries of the Great War by Sir Edwin Lutyens, 2010 (An authoritative & comprehensive study of all aspects)

Skelton, T & Gliddon, G: Lutyens & the Great War, 2008  (A substantial study of cemeteries & memorials, in France,
Belgium & Britain, covering initial designs & unexecuted projects)

Commonwealth War Graves Commission: Their Name Liveth, 6 volumes, 1954-68 (architectural photographs in B & W of the cemeteries of both World Wars)

Garfield, John: The Fallen, 1990 (A sequence of fine photographs of cemeteries & memorials)

Stamp, Gavin: The Memorial to the Missing of the Somme, 2006 (An elegiac presentation of Thiepval)

Boorman, Derek: At the Going Down of the Sun, 1988 (A useful survey of the wide variety of memorials in Britain)

Archer, Geoff: The Glorious Dead: Figurative Sculpture of British First World War Memorials, 2009.

Stamp, Gavin: Silent Cities, 1977 (A booklet, by the curator of the celebrated photographic exhibition in London of Great War memorials & cemeteries; with notes on the architects employed, particularly valuable with respect to the 
Assistant Architects) 

Baker, Herbert: Architecture & Personalities, 1944 (autobiographical; one of the Principal Architects)

Karol, Eitan: Charles Holden, 2007  (An architectural study, with substantial treatment  of his work for the Imperial War Graves Commission, where he was an Assistant, & later the fourth Principal Architect)

Longworth, Philip: The Unending Vigil, 1967 (A history of the CWGC)

Gibson, E & Ward, GK: Courage Remembered, 1995 (about the construction & maintenance of Commonwealth
cemeteries & memorials)


Borg, Alan: War Memorials, 1991 (A scholarly introduction to the subject)

Curl, J S: Death & Celebration, 2002 (includes a short discussion of war memorials & cemeteries in France, Germany & Italy)

Holt, Dean W: American Military Cemeteries, 1992 (includes a list with short details of those outside the USA)

Scharfe, Siegfried (ed.) : Deutschland Über Alles, 1940 (photos of German memorials & some cemeteries, from all over Europe, many no longer existing)

de Busscher, J-M: Les Folies de l’Industrie, 1981 (A thoughtful, illustrated study, in French, of memorials & a few
cemeteries of the different nations in France & Belgium


Sherman, Daniel J: The Construction of Memory in Interwar France, 1999 (A perspective on the manner of
​commemoration, & of its effects)

D’Arcy, F. A.: Remembering the War Dead: British, Commonwealth and International War Graves in Ireland since 1914, Dublin 2007 (with maps & full index).

World War Two Cemeteries
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The casualty numbers for each cemetery and G. P. S. Coordinates are taken from the C. W. G. C. site. We are aware that there can be discrepancies in the burial numbers quoted due to rededication burials.

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  • Belgium
    • Commonwealth Cemeteries in Belgium in Alphabetical Order
    • Commonwealth Cemeteries in Belgium >
      • HAINAUT
      • WEST-VLAANDEREN
      • OTHER BELGIAN DEPARTMENTS
    • BELGIAN MILITARY CEMETERIES
    • BELGIAN MEMORIALS
  • France
    • Commonwealth Cemeteries in France in Alphabetical Order
    • Commonwealth Cemeteries in France >
      • AISNE
      • MARNE
      • NORD
      • OISE
      • PAS DE CALAIS
      • SEINE-ET-MARNE
      • SEINE-MARITIME
      • SOMME
      • OTHER FRENCH DEPARTMENTS
    • FRENCH CEMETERIES WORLDWIDE
    • French Memorials
  • Gallipoli
  • Other CWGC Countries
  • GERMAN CEMETERIES
  • OTHER WAR AND MILITARY CEMETERIES
  • Architects
  • Shot at Dawn
  • Victoria Cross
  • Miscellaneous
  • Regimental Badges
  • "Silent Cities" Revisited