Overview

Normandy, Flanders Field and other overseas cemeteries of the American Battle Monument Commission (ABMC) are well known. However, lesser-known burial sites of American war dead exist all over the world--in Australia and across the Pacific Rim, in Canada and Mexico, Libya and Spain, most of Europe and as far north as the Russian Arctic. This is the history of American soldiers buried abroad since the American Revolution. It traces the evolution of American attitudes and practices about war dead and provides the names and locations of those still buried abroad in non-ABMC locations.

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Author:   Chris Dickon
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.535kg
ISBN:  

9780786446124

ISBN 10:   0786446129
Pages:   308
Publication Date:   14 September 2011
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order  
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Preface and Acknowledgments      1. Seas and Shores      2. Prisons and Churchyards      3. Safe Havens and Hasty Cemeteries      4. In Foreign Lands at Home      5. Paris and Parral      6. Americans in Any Uniform      7. Decisions to Be Made      8. Monuments and Pilgrimage: Search for the Lost      9. Scattered from the Sky      10. Islands and Farmlands      11. Expanded Families, Gracious Towns      12. Cold Earth and Tropical Earth      13. Remembered, Lost, Forgotten, Unknown      14. Ordinary Lives, Extraordinary Events      15. Memorial Day      Afterword      Appendices      Notes      Bibliography      Index     

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This work compiles names and locations of Americans who died in wars on foreign soil who are buried in locations which are outside of the system of the American Battle Monument Commission...the book traces the evolution of American attitudes and practices regarding its war dead --<i>Reference & Research Book News</i>; Dickon has been painstakingly counting, cataloging and mapping the locations of American war dead buried outside formal memorial cemeteries --<i>PBS Newshour</i>.

Author Information

Chris Dickon is an Emmy-awarded former broadcast producer whose work develops new information about the human results of Americans at war. He has written about the places where named American war dead are still buried, the role of Americans in the non-American forces of the two world wars, and the social results of U.S. military racial policy and practice in Europe. He lives in Portsmouth, Virginia.

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