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    Heroes and hoaxes: The Unknown Warrior, Kitchener and 'missing men' in the 1920s

    Bourke, Joanna (1995) Heroes and hoaxes: The Unknown Warrior, Kitchener and 'missing men' in the 1920s. War and Society 13 (2), pp. 41-63. ISSN 0729-2473.

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    Abstract

    The most terrible words in all writing used to be ‘There they crucified Him’, but there is a sadder sentence now—‘I know not where they have laid Him’…Surely ‘missing’ is the cruelest word in the language. (Anonymous, To My Unknown Warrior, 1920.)

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    Item Type: Article
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Historical Studies
    Depositing User: Sarah Hall
    Date Deposited: 15 Dec 2016 12:55
    Last Modified: 02 Aug 2023 17:30
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/17652

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