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This is the remarkably powerful and moving true story of a soldier who lost his memory and identity, and of a people in mourning, who found in him the symbol of their lost generation. With no memory of his name or his past life, and no documents or distinguishing marks to identify him, he was renamed Anthelme Mangin, and sent to an asylum for the insane. With the end of the Great War, a newspaper advertisement placed in the hope of finding his lost family found instead a bereaved multitude ready to claim him as the father, son, husband or brother who had never come home. With humane sympathy and the skill of a novelist, French historian Jean Yves Le Naour meticulously recreates the twenty-year court battles waged over the Living Unknown Soldier, Poignant, psychologically penetrating, and profoundly revealing of the human cost of war, this remarkable book portrays not just the fate of one individual but of a nations inconsolable post-war grief.
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'Fascinating and moving' -- William Boyd, Sunday Times
'The Living Unknown Soldier will surely become one of the classic accounts of modern warfare.' -- Scottish Sunday Herald
'affecting account of one of the many amnesiac soldier created by the first world war' -- Sunday Times Culture
'one of the most gripping, moving books I have ever read.' -- Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, The Times
...The Living Unknown Soldier is a book which grabs the reader by the lapels and never lets go -- Scotland on Sunday
‘(a) poignant but admirably unsentimental book’ -- Independent
‘This hauntingly emblematic story reads like something Sebald would have taken up and absorbed.’ -- Telegraph
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'The Living Unknown Soldier will surely become one of the classic accounts of modern warfare.' -- Scottish Sunday Herald
'affecting account of one of the many amnesiac soldier created by the first world war' -- Sunday Times Culture
'one of the most gripping, moving books I have ever read.' -- Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, The Times
...The Living Unknown Soldier is a book which grabs the reader by the lapels and never lets go -- Scotland on Sunday
‘(a) poignant but admirably unsentimental book’ -- Independent
‘This hauntingly emblematic story reads like something Sebald would have taken up and absorbed.’ -- Telegraph
This haunting and moving story of lost identity tells the life of one of the most unusual victims of the tragedies of twentieth century Europe.
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- PublisherWilliam Heinemann Ltd
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0434013196
- ISBN 13 9780434013197
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages240
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