The Man who Carried the Nation's Grief - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Man who Carried the Nation's Grief write by Carol Rosenhain. This book was released on 2016-11-05. The Man who Carried the Nation's Grief available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. ‘I do feel the loss of my two boys, they was my all …’ wrote grieving father Ernest Watts following the death of his two sons. Like thousands of Australians during World War I, Ernest Watts received his tragic news through the office known as ‘Base Records’. This letter was just one in a series of correspondence that lasted the duration of the war and well into the post-war period. Every letter was answered with patience and courtesy and every response carried the same signature: J.M. Lean. The Man who Carried the Nation’s Grief describes the extraordinary work of James Lean, whose office at times received over 100 letters a day from distressed families. The letters selected by author Carol Rosenhain are quoted verbatim in all their rawness, the grief, anger and disbelief of the writer signifying wounds that would take years to heal while others never would. Like those of Ernest Watts, the letters often form part of a chain of correspondence that lasted well beyond the Armistice of 1918. For one shattered father, the fate of his missing boy would never be resolved, his son’s final resting place only discovered in Pheasant Wood almost a century after he met his death. Given his crucial role as the link between anxious families and the bureaucracy of the AIF, James Lean’s remarkable work is a surprising omission from the vast body of World War I literature. Carol Rosenhain’ s book rectifies this omission with a portrait of Lean himself and the grim task at which he excelled. This is a book that describes the impact of war on families in all its devastating reality.
The Nation's Grief
The Nation's Grief - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Nation's Grief write by George Washington Doane. This book was released on 1841. The Nation's Grief available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Mourning Diana
Mourning Diana - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mourning Diana write by Adrian Kear. This book was released on 2002-01-22. Mourning Diana available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The death of Diana, Princess of Wales, on September 1 1997, prompted public demonstrations of grief on an almost unprecented global scale. But, while global media coverage of the events following her death appeared to create an international 'community of mourning', popular reacions in fact reflected the complexities of the princess's public image and the tensions surrounding the popular conception of royalty. Mourning Diana examines the events which followed the death of Diana as a series of cultural-political phenomena, from the immediate aftermath as crowds gathered in public spaces and royal palaces, to the state funeral in Westminister Abbey, examining the performance of grief and the involvement of the global media in the creation of narratives and spectacles relating to the commemoration of her life. Contributors investigate the complex iconic status of Diana, as a public figure able to sustain a host of alternative identifications, and trace the posthumous romanticisation of aspects of her life such as her charity activism and her relationship with Dodi al Fayed. The contributors argue that the events following the death of Diana dramatised a complex set of cultural tensions in which the boundaries dividing nationhood and citizenship, charity and activism, private feeling and public politics, were redrawn.
Dying for the Nation
Dying for the Nation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dying for the Nation write by Lucy Noakes. This book was released on 2022-07-05. Dying for the Nation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Drawing on a range of material, the book demonstrates just how much death matters in wartime - not just to the individual, threatened with their own death, or the death of loved ones, but to the state, tasked with managing the deaths of its citizens in conflict.
The Nation's Grief
The Nation's Grief - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Nation's Grief write by James Marshall. This book was released on 1865. The Nation's Grief available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
