Tim Grady Burying the Enemy recensie, review en informatie boek met het verhaal van degenen die voor de doden zorgden in twee wereldoorlogen. Op 29 april 2025 verschijnt bij Yale University Press het boek van de Britse historicus Tim Grady over oorlogsgraven uit de Eerste en Tweede Wereldoorlog. Hier lees je informatie van de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Tim Grady Burying the Enemy recensie en review

• “A beautifully written reminder of the common need to grieve, bury and commemorate the dead of war.  Grady’s carefully researched book tells the story of how German and British societies cared for the ‘enemy dead’ alongside their own after the destruction of the two World Wars.” (Lucy Noakes, author of War and the British)
• “Illuminates an otherwise hidden history…Grady’s sensitive, moving study provides new insights into how ordinary people on the home fronts, long after the shooting has stopped, recover from the devastating effects of modern war.” (Jason Crouthamel, author of The Great War and German Memory)

Burying the Enemy

The Story of Those who Cared for the Dead in Two World Wars

• Auteur: Tim Grady (Engeland)
• Soort boek: oorlogsgeschiedenis
• Taal; Engels
• Uitgever: Yale University Press
• Verschijnt: 29 april 2025
• Omvang: 384 pagina’s
• Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
• Prijs: $ 35,00
• Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over oorlogsgraven van Tim Grady

A fascinating and moving history of the British and German war dead buried on enemy soil in the two world wars.

Why do societies only remember their own national war dead? Today, the enemy dead might be largely hidden from view, but this wasn’t always the case. During both world wars, Germans and Britons died in their thousands in enemy territory. From Berlin to Bath, London to Leipzig, civilian communities buried the enemy in the closest parish churchyard. Perhaps surprisingly, local people embraced these graves, often caring for them with considerable tenderness.

Tim Grady explores the history of this curious aspect of postwar community. He reveals how, as the two states moved bodies to new military cemeteries, local people protested at the disturbance of the dead, and ties between the bereaved families and those who cared for the graves were severed forever. With the enemy out of sight and mind, the British and Germans concentrated solely on commemorating their own war dead, and their own sacrifices. Today’s insular public memory of the world wars was only made possible by clearing away signs of the enemy—allowing people to tell themselves much simpler narratives of the recent past as a result.

Tim Grady is professor of modern history at the University of Chester. He is the author of A Deadly Legacy, which was shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize and the Cundill Prize, and The German-Jewish Soldiers of the First World War in History and Memory, which was proxime accessit for the RHS Gladstone Book Prize.

Bijpassende boeken

• Eerste Wereldoorlog
• Tweede Wereldoorlog