The Unknown Warrior: A Personal Journey of Discovery and Remembrance by John Nichol #joyce religious conflict

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harnessing sound to discover the true names of people - and recording the uncanny phenomena and transformations that this naming ritual brings in the subject

Distance gives the writer a retrospective clarity from which she does not flinch despite its challenges (‘Look at me’

The Unknown Warrior: A Personal Journey of Discovery and Remembrance by John Nichol #joyce religious conflictOver one million British Empire soldiers were killed during the First World War. More than a century later, over half a million still have no known grave. The scale of the fighting, the catastrophic destruction, the relentless military engagement and glutinous mud meant that many of the dead were never identified, of often, never recovered. Names were left without bodies, and bodies, or fragments of bodies, without names. To help staunch the tide of