Burying America's World War dead /
After the World War ended, the families of the American war dead were faced with a difficult choice. Political leaders like former President Theodore Roosevelt were encouraging families to leave the dead with their comrades in European cemeteries to create stronger political ties between the United...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
[2019]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Routledge studies in First World War history.
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Table of Contents:
- Families join the debate over where to bury the war dead
- Families correspond with the Graves Registration Service
- Family members fight to be "next of kin"
- Families seek control over the bodies of the dead
- Searching for the missing, identifying the unknown
- Families decide where the American war dead will be buried
- Conclusion.