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Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction; the extraordinary and forgotten story of the building of the World War One cemeteries, due to the efforts of one remarkable man, Fabian Ware.
Before WWI, little provision was made for the burial of the war dead. Soldiers were often unceremoniously dumped in a mass grave; officers shipped home for burial.
The great cemeteries of WWI came about as a result of the efforts of one inspired visionary. In 1914, Fabian Ware joined the Red Cross, working on the frontline in France. Horrified by the hasty burials, he recorded the identity and position of the graves. His work was officially recognised, with a Graves Registration Commission being set up. As reports of their work became public, the Commission was flooded with letters from grieving relatives around the world.
Critically acclaimed author David Crane gives a profoundly moving account of the creation of the great citadels to the dead, which involved leading figures of the day, including Rudyard Kipling. It is the story of cynical politicking, as governments sought to justify the sacrifice, as well as the grief of nations, following the ‘war to end all wars’.
- Sales Rank: #628410 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-09-26
- Released on: 2013-09-26
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review
‘Of the avalanche of books to commemorate the centennial of the opening of the Great War, ‘Empires of the Dead’ is the most original, best written and most challenging so far. It strikes at the heart of the current debate about what we are commemorating, celebrating or deploring in the flood of ceremony, debate and literary rows about the meaning of the First World War today. Crane succeeds in doing so by looking at the achievement of Fabian Ware, who to this day is almost an unknown in the pantheon of heroes or villains associated with the conflict’ Evening Standard
‘Outstanding … Crane shows how extraordinary a physical, logistical and administrative feat it was to bury or commemorate more than half a million dead in individual graves. And he reveals that this Herculean task was accomplished largely due to the efforts of one man: Fabian Ware’ Independent on Sunday
‘Vivid and compelling … David Crane writes exuberant, joyful prose. He is acutely aware of the ambiguities and nuances surrounding the issues of war and death; and that makes this a fine and troubling book, as well as a riveting read’ Literary Review
‘A superb study. The story of the foundation and achievements of the War Graves Commission has been told before, but never so well or so perceptively. Crane brings out the complexities of Ware’s character … his brilliance as a diplomat … and the paradoxes in his achievement’ Spectator
‘The most original, shortest and best written of the year’s tsunami of books on the impact of the Great War’ Evening Standard, Books of the Year
‘Excellent’ Sunday Times
‘Intensely moving’ Boyd Tonkin, Independent
‘A beautifully written, enormously touching account of Ware’s attempt to create what Kipling called, ‘a work greater than the Pharoahs’’ Daily Mail
‘In retrieving [Ware] from history, Crane has performed an important work of remembrance’ New Statesman
‘A beautifully researched and written book, an intellectually honest work of history’ Guardian
About the Author
David Crane's first book, ‘Lord Byron’s Jackal’ was published to great acclaim in 1998, and his second, ‘The Kindness of Sisters’ published in 2002, is a groundbreaking work of romantic biography. In 2005 the highly acclaimed 'Scott of the Antarctic' was published, followed by ‘Men of War’, a collection of 19th Century naval biographies, in 2009. Crane lives in north-west Scotland.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
A great read
By A Bowker
Visitors to Commonwealth War Graves are always moved by the eloquence with which these gardens of the dead convey to the living their profound message of sacrifice and sorrow. They seem so … inevitable. It is difficult to imagine how better to convey the tragedy of war in our time. It is therefore startling to realize how recent such things are, how different from the practices of other countries, how much they were the product of the energy, imagination, and determination of one man, Sir Fabian Ware.
In his book Empires of the Dead, David Crane tells the story of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission with fresh insight into how the ideas and values of religion, imperialism, democracy, memory, art and architecture, the family and the nation, intersected, clashed, and harmonized in the creation of these memorials to the fallen.
Ware was a disciple of Lord Milner, whose dream was to unite the British Empire in a great democratic federation that would bring peace and civilization to the world. Individuals would freely serve the great ideals for which the empire stood – ideals that demanded devotion and sacrifice, and got them in spades in the titanic struggle for civilization that was the Great War. They are exemplified in the cemeteries, which are democratic (officers and men have identical grave markers), imperial (the white Dominions all agreed to participate in the project), inclusive (Christians, Jews, Muslims and Hindus are all honoured in an architecture which has religious overtones but is not particular to any religion), and noble (the finest architects in Britain designed the cemeteries and the best poetic minds composed the memorial phrases and decided how to commemorate those who had no known graves).
Against such a grand vision opposition must seem petty today. Yet most of us, confronted with the same issues today, might well have opposed this grand scheme, and Crane sympathetically recounts opposing views. Why could not those who could afford it design their own memorials? Why could not men be repatriated to rest in country churchyards or family plots? Why were there no crosses? Why do the cemeteries appear to glorify war by making the mud and waste of the trenches into scenes of pastoral beauty? Were those who had been conscripted in life also to be regimented in death? Were the families that lost their sons to the army also to lose them to this grand vision? A Canadian is constrained to note as well, that while many British families could visit the war graves in Europe, few people from the overseas Dominions would ever see the resting places of their loved ones.
It all makes fascinating reading, and those who find peace and exaltation in these magnificent creations can, through this book, also see the anguish and conflict, the great ideas and clashing visions that lie behind this achievement. This is the best kind of history.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Interesting
By R. Albin
This relatively short and very well written book is an interesting history of the Imperial War Graves Commission (IWGC) responsible for the impressive cemetaries and memorials for Commonwealth soldiers in the afternath of WWI. The book is built around the work of its guiding force, Sir Fabian Ware. A successful journalist, educator, and colonial administrator in the pre-war period, Ware was an acolyte of the "Liberal Imperialist" and one-time proconsul of South Africa Afred Milner. Ware developed the IWGC as a vehicle for Imperial solidarity and a certain type of democratic idealism. As Crane points out, Ware pursued his objectives with what amounted to a sense of religious mission, a partial reflection of his upbringing in the Plymouth Brethen. An unusually diligent and effective administrator, Ware was also a skillful bureaucratic politician whose connections in the British establishment provided him with the allies to out-manuever rivals and achieve what were sometimes controversial goals. Ware was able to recruit an unusually talented group of architects, landscape designers, and other subordinates to to provide dignified and often quite beautiful burials and memorials for hundreds of thousands of casualties in locations around the globe. While Ware's artists were a rather contentious team, they were also quite talented and shared a joint background in the Arts and Crafts movement.
Crane does very well in describing the essential features of the evolution of the IWGC, its relatively complex history, and its major achievements. While this book is not profusely illustrated, enough good images are provided to give a good idea of the success of the IWGC. Parts of this book also provide real insight into the enormous impact of WWI on British society and give some moving examples of the tragedies that affected so many British families. Crane provides a nice analysis of Ware's personality and the relationship of his goals to pre-war liberal imperialism. A point that Crane may overlook is that the Empire was under considerable strain in the aftermath of the war and the success of the IWGC should be seen against the background of the centripetal forces challenging the structure of the Empire. Crane points to Ware's zeal as being to some extent a form of displaced religious commitment, which may be a feature of the way dissenting Protestantism spilled over into other aspects of British life.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
War Graves have personal meaning too
By Alison Ward
Those who have visited the cemeteries maintained with respect and love by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission will appreciate the work done by Fabian Ware and his team
"Empires of the Dead" describes fully the difficulties they had to overcome ensure that the bodies of the poor and powerless were treated with as much consideration of those of the rich and powerful.
I found it very readable and fascinating as well as the, then Imperial War Graves Commission stood up to senior military officials and MPs to do what was right for the War Dead and their families.
My own paternal grandfather has no known grave but his name is on a panel at Tyne Cot Cemetery. After reading "Empires of the Dead" I have a clearer idea of how with all came about and am grateful to them for ensuring that Grandfather Sam and the sacrifice he made is not totally overlooked
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