audiobook Owsley and Me: My LSD Family by Rhoney Gissen Stanley; Tom Davis in Arts-Photography

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Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction; the extraordinary and forgotten story of the building of the World War One cemeteries; due to the efforts of one remarkable man; Fabian Ware.Before WWI; little provision was made for the burial of the war dead. Soldiers were often unceremoniously dumped in a mass grave; officers shipped home for burial.The great cemeteries of WWI came about as a result of the efforts of one inspired visionary. In 1914; Fabian Ware joined the Red Cross; working on the frontline in France. Horrified by the hasty burials; he recorded the identity and position of the graves. His work was officially recognised; with a Graves Registration Commission being set up. As reports of their work became public; the Commission was flooded with letters from grieving relatives around the world.Critically acclaimed author David Crane gives a profoundly moving account of the creation of the great citadels to the dead; which involved leading figures of the day; including Rudyard Kipling. It is the story of cynical politicking; as governments sought to justify the sacrifice; as well as the grief of nations; following the ‘war to end all wars’.