The Challenge of the Dead
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At Zeebruges in 1920, damaged guns and sunken vessels share the waterfront with schoolchildren, postcards and hotel visitors. Stephen Graham uses these encounters to reflect on the First World War and the lives of ordinary soldiers. His travel account moves between present scenes and the movements of the Seventh Division in 1914, following roads associated with its advance towards Ypres. Bells, cafés and crowded streets record everyday life continuing amid the reminders of conflict.
The landscape grows harsher in the passages on ruined towns and abandoned trenches. At Albert, Graham describes damaged homes as though they were living beings, imagining the family meals and children's rooms that once gave them meaning. Children play among the remains while grass covers shell pits and old wire.
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Book facts
- Author
- Stephen Graham
- Reading time
- About 3 hours
- Pages
- 80
- Language
- English
- Genre
- World War I History
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- PDF, EPUB, Read online