This carefully researched and beautifully written book reveals the determination of the families of those who have lost loved ones killed in war to find out what happened to them and where their bodies lie. Each year at the Cenotaph, a memorial whose origins are described here in fascinating detail, we see the public manifestation of a private grief that never fades. There may be a commemorative tomb in Westminster Abbey but there is in truth, as Sackville-West explains, no such thing as an Unknown Warrior

David Dimbleby

A deeply sad but fascinating topic ... Beautifully written

Michael Portillo, TimesRadio

Remarkable

John Carey, Sunday Times

Robert Sackville-West writes tenderly about death and remembrance … [He] handles this grim subject with grace. The excruciatingly personal stories he tells convey perfectly that desperate need for closure that so many grieving relatives felt … His gentle book is fascinating, but never sensational or gratuitously maudlin

Gerard DeGroot, The Times

Carefully researched and utterly riveting

Sunday Telegraph

A fascinating, moving account … A hidden piece of First World War history is revealed in this sensitive and engrossing study

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