The Searchers av Sackville-West Robert Sackville-West

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<b>**Selected as a Book of the Year by the<i> Spectator</i> and the <i>Daily Telegraph</i>**</b><b>''Fascinating ... carefully researched and beautifully written'' DAVID DIMBLEBY</b><b>''Utterly riveting'' <i>SUNDAY TELEGRAPH</i></b><b>''Robert-Sackville West writes tenderly about death and remembrance'' GERARD DEGROOT, <i>THE TIMES</i></b>______________________By the end of the First World War, the whereabouts of more than half a million British soldiers were unknown. Most were presumed dead, lost forever under the battlefields of northern France and Flanders.In <i>The Searchers</i>, Robert Sackville-West brings together the extraordinary, moving accounts of those who dedicated their lives to the search for the missing. These stories reveal the remarkable lengths to which people will go to give meaning to their loss: Rudyard Kipling''s quest for his son''s grave; E.M. Forster¿s conversations with traumatised soldiers in hospital in Alexandria; desperate attempts to communicate with th