Books of Interest
By Nicholas Philpot
Commonwealth War Graves Commission: Their Name Liveth, 6 vols., 1954-68 (Fine B & W photos, with short text, of cemeteries of both World Wars)
Longworth, Philip: The Unending Vigil, 1967 (A history of the CWGC)
Gibson, E & Ward, GK: Courage Remembered, 1995 (Construction & maintenance of Commonwealth cemeteries & memorials)
Boorman, Derek: For Your Tomorrow, 1995 (A useful, illustrated survey of the wide variety of memorials in Britain)
Borg, Alan: War Memorials, 1991 (A scholarly introduction to the subject)
Curl, James S: Death & Celebration, 2002 (contains a discussion of memorials & cemeteries in France, Germany & Italy)
Holt, Dean W: American Military Cemeteries, 1992 (includes a list, with short details, of cemeteries outside the USA built by the American Battle Monuments Commission)
Urmson, Birgit: German & US Second World War Military Cemeteries in Italy, 2018 (An account, by an art historian, of the background to their installation, with a comparison of the ethos & artistic expression of the two cultures)
Barcellini, S & Wieviorka, A: Passant, Souviens-toi !, 1995 (A survey, in French, of war memorials in France, including those to the Resistance, & relating to Deportation, & PoW camps)
Azizyan, I & Ivanova, I: Honour Eternal, 1982 (A substantial study, translated from the Russian, of Soviet memorials; well illustrated)
Harris, Lillian C: Cemeteries & Memories, 2007 (A personal account, by an American diplomat, of British, French, German & American cemeteries in Tunisia)
D’Arcy, F. A.: Remembering the War Dead: British, Commonwealth and International War Graves in Ireland since 1914, Dublin 2007 (with maps & full index).
