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[a] moving and eloquent book... Literary Review as a piece of architectural analysis it is impressive The Spectator Stamp has provided an invaluable, detailed and illuminating study... Guardian the value of Stamp's book lies in its eloquent account of the genius of the vision of Edward Lutyens...who created in the Monument to the Missing at Thiepval the central metaphor of a generation's experience of appalling loss. Observer This book is a gem...an eloquent, moving lament for the futile waste and industrialised killing of the First World War, and indeed of the 20th Century - an elegy which resonates powerfully today. Sunday Telegraph Much, much more than architectural history, for here, encapsulated in marmoreally angry prose, is an account of that collective act of mass murder, without parallel in history, known as the Great War. An unforgettable, passionate book. -- A.N. Wilson Evening Standard Perfectly formed and beautifully written, this book is a minor masterpiece, a paragon of its genre. It will move all but the hardest heart to tears at the folly, and the glory, that is man. -- Ross Leckie The Times

'A gem... utterly absorbing... an elegy which resonates powerfully today' Jane Ridley, Sunday Telegraph 'An invaluable, detailed and illuminating study' Geoff Dyer, Guardian 'A tragic chorus on the Somme which reverberates on the battlefields of today' A. N. Wilson

Perfectly formed and beautifully written, this book is a minor masterpiece, a paragon of its genre. It will move all but the hardest heart to tears at the folly, and the glory, that is man. -- Ross Leckie The Times [a] moving and eloquent book... Literary Review as a piece of architectural analysis it is impressive The Spectator Stamp has provided an invaluable, detailed and illuminating study... Guardian the value of Stamp's book lies in its eloquent account of the genius of the vision of Edward Lutyens...who created in the Monument to the Missing at Thiepval the central metaphor of a generation's experience of appalling loss. Observer This book is a gem...an eloquent, moving lament for the futile waste and industrialised killing of the First World War, and indeed of the 20th Century - an elegy which resonates powerfully today. Sunday Telegraph Much, much more than architectural history, for here, encapsulated in marmoreally angry prose, is an account of that collective act of mass murder, without parallel in history, known as the Great War. An unforgettable, passionate book. -- A.N. Wilson Evening Standard

The Times - 'Perfectly formed and beautifully written, this book is a minor masterpiece, a paragon of its genre. It will move all but the hardest heart to tears at the folly, and the glory, that is man.'

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Gavin Stamp is a well known architectural historian and writer. He has taught at Glasgow School of Art and held a research post at Cambridge. He lives in London.

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