A Century of Remembrance Bestseller No single human invention has

No single human invention has altered the nature of war more than the airplane

their commitment to fight for the Allies on the Western Front riveted the attention of Allied London

choosing to read history at Oxford and going on to become an archaeologist

without drawing a weapon

Set in early 1916

A Century of Remembrance Bestseller No single human invention hasDescription by Laura Clouting Hardcover A Century of Remembrance draws on the vast collections of the Imperial War Museums to explore the ways in which the dead of World War I were mourned in Great Britain from the end of the war through the 1920s, from the poppy to the cenotaph. In its pages we discover deeply personal remembrances, as families try to cope with unfathomable losses. Nearly every town, too, had its memorial, honoring its fallen sons