Books of Interest
By Nicholas Philpot
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)
For books about those executed for military offences during the Great War click here.
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)
For books about those executed for military offences during the Great War click here.
