The importance of honouring the enemy war dead

Burying the Enemy: The Story of Those Who Cared for the Dead in Two World Wars Tim Grady

Yale, pp.416, 25

There are several dozen graves from the second world war (and some from the first) in churchyards near my village on Salisbury Plain, but all of them British or Commonwealth ones. Nor have I seen any enemy graves elsewhere, although some 4,500 Germans died on British soil during the last world war, and a far smaller number in the Great War.

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The importance of honouring the enemy war dead

Local communities who tend the graves of enemy casualties of the two world wars do more for reconciliation than most politicians and diplomats, says Tim Grady

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