Military Cemeteries Research Articles

Sant'Elia's Last Project

Based on what were thought to be the only two representations of Sant'Elia's design for a military cemetery at Monfalcone, scholars believed until recently that the design was only partially executed. Two newly unearthed photographs instead affirm that the execution of the project followed Sant'Elia's plan, and they provide much fuller documentation of the project itself. The new documents also call into question the historiographic treatment of Sant'Elia in which he has chiefly been regarded a precursor of subsequent architects.

Snake Hill: An Investigation of a Military Cemetery from the War of 1812

Snake Hill: An Investigation of a Military Cemetery from the War of 1812

American battle monuments: a guide to military cemeteries and monuments maintained by the American Battle Monuments Commission

American battle monuments: a guide to military cemeteries and monuments maintained by the American Battle Monuments Commission

Who Edits the Editors? Snake Hill and Archaeological Reports

A review of Snake Hill: An Investigation of a Military Cemetery from the War of 1812, edited by Susan Pfeiffer and Ronald F. Williamson, provides a coign of vantage regarding two aspects of particular concern to historical archaeologists. One is the increasing number of historical cemeteries that, because of recent legislation and a broadening of research domains, are being investiagted by archaeologists. The other, closely related, aspect is the need for strong editorial oversight in preparing for the press reports that comprise the contributions of diverse specialists. Snake Hill was a good project that resulted in a report that, while useful, bears deficiencies that underscore the necessity for thoughtful compilation of edited volumes.

There's No Place like Home: Jeannette Lander and Ronnith Neumann's Utopian Quests for Jewish Identity in the Contemporary West German Context

Identity: the promise of wholeness that will satisfy our hunger and nourish our soul. But like many whole-grain breads, in the 1980s is to be savored with considerable care in the chewing. Contemplating West German developments over the last forty years, one is struck by two tendencies: 1) the question of national identity has consistently played a pivotal role in both politics and culture in the Federal Republic, and 2) the relationship between Germans and Jews however defined continues to be an essential ingredient in any notion of German national identity. Perhaps the two most striking examples of this in recent years have been the joint visit by Ronald Reagan and Helmut Kohl to the military cemetery in Bitburg in 1985 and the much-discussed Historikerstreit (Historians' Debate) of 1986.2 Various responses to Israel be it the love professed by the Riglt or the condemnation voiced by the Left turn on West Germans' relationship

Reforging the Iron Cross: the search for tradition in the West German armed forces

Recent controversies about Ronald Reagan's visit to the Bitburg military cemetery and revelations about Kurt Waldheim's past underscored the political problems inherent in Germany's military traditions and in the relationship of the army to National Socialism. The Allied victors disbanded the German armed forces after World War II, only to press for the arming of the Federal Republic of Germany under the altered political conditions of the cold war. This book is the first comprehensive narrative and analysis of the efforts of German military professionals to discover for their new army an acceptable body of tradition in the proud, ambiguous, and at times criminal history of the German soldier.The author shows that, despite a complex of political obstacles, the founders of the Bundeswehr generally succeeded in persuading the international community and Germany itself that the army of the 1950s and 1960s would not revive the militarism of the past. However, the rapidity of the military buildup was a major drawback to their reform ideas. Certain officers and NCOs in the Bundeswehr undercut changes made by the leadership, and the debate on tradition building became a major political issue in the Federal Republic and NATO.Originally published in 1989.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

The state of research history of the Kampinos Forest

Kampinos Forest, also known as the Kampinos National Park, is a large forest complex located north-west of Warsaw. This is a unique natural heritage resource full of various forms of wildlife and many types of animals. In this remarkable natural monument are also to be found traces of human activity. Forest areas remained untouched for a long time, but since the 15th century people have begun the first settlements and villages. Within a few hundred years there has been created in this area many towns, parishes and centres of agricultural and forestry. During the Polish uprisings of the 19th and 20th centuries, the forest terrain was favourable to guerilla actions and is now a place of burial for several thousand people who are buried in military cemeteries. These topics were studied by historians, who wanted and still want to show the area of human activity and the evolution of the relationship between nature and man. The Kampinos Forest is seen in many publications as the place for daily life of inhabitants from the Middle Ages to the present day. This article is an attempt to discuss the current trends of historical research in this part of Mazovia. It also shows the perception of events by the authors. The issues of nature, landscape formation, geological processes and environmental protection are not included, because they belong to other fields of science and have a separate research methodology.

The Veteran: Problem and Challenge

IN A little corner of marshy earth close to the battered wall of Manila's Intramuros there stand a few white crosses. I have passed them many times; so have thousands of other Americans stationed in and around Manila. Probably they gave the crosses little thought, for military cemeteries are no novelties in the foughtover places of the world. I did not think about them so much, either, until I came home and tried to buy some white shirts. And then it came to me that in those two white objects-the white crosses of the world's battlefields, the white shirts of an elusive commerce-there is symbolized much of the conflict in which the returned veteran finds himself almost the moment he sets foot on1 American soil. For no matter how fast he must swim in the new and confusing tide of civilian affairs-even unto the dire search for white shirts-the veteran must always have in the back of his mind the vision of white crosses, sometimes great fields of them and sometimes only little clusters, like the few that stand beside Intramuros. A great many men have died these past few years. Whatever it was they died for,it was not in the interest of the market for white shirts, and the thousand and one similar petty complexities of the modern world. That much, at least, the veteran knows. That much, at least, will color his thinking and shape his desires for the rest of his life. Two years ago the Editors of SOCIAL FORCES asked me this question: What will the returning veteran want? I wrote an answer to it once when I sailed westward from San Francisco; I wrote a second answer over a year later as I sailed eastward from Manila; and I am writing the third attempt now, three months after returning to the United States. So this article, in itself, represents a somewhat extended metamorphosis of thought.

Richard Carlysle Cady

Major RICHARD CARLYSLE CADY died January 15, 1943, at the age of 35 years, as a result of accidental injuries received on January 3, while on duty overseas in the United states Army. He had been engaged for about a year in locating well‐sites to develop water‐supplies for military establishments in Africa and Asia. He was buried with full military honors in a British military cemetery in Africa. He leaves a wife, Mrs. Beatrice Dunn Cady, two sons—Richard, Jr., and James, aged 8 and 5, respectively—and his parents, Dr. and Mrs. James D. Cady.Major Cady was born in Cortland, New York, August 7, 1907, graduated from Colgate University, and did postgraduate work in Colgate and Harvard. He was appointed in the Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior, in 1930, and from 1931 until he began his work in Africa he served continuously in the Ground‐Water Division of the Geological Survey. He was a member of the American Geophysical Union, the Society of Economic Geologists, the Geological Society of Washington, and the Sigma Gamma Epsilon and Phi Gamma Delta fraternities.

Excavations at Ur

OWING to the late date at which excavations were resumed at Ur this year, Dr. C. L. Woolley's first report on the season's work has only just been received and is published in the Times of March 16. The operations of the joint expedition this year are to be directed to the exploration of a cemetery of the Jemdet Nasr period of about 4,000 B.C., which lies at a depth of 54 ft. below the surface and involves the removal of about 5,000 tons of accumulated rubbish. The three weeks‘ work which had been completed at the time Dr. Woolley wrote has produced a remarkable example of sculpture in the round in the form of a woman's figure in alabaster with lapis lazuli inlay forming a fillet outlining the face, lapis lazuli and shell eyes, bituminous inlay for the eyebrows, which meet above the nose, and hair in dark paint. The statue is ten inches high. It is not only the earliest known example of sculpture in the round at Ur, dating from about the last quarter of the fourth millennium, but it is also remarkable as being the first statue to be found in a grave. It lay in a soldier's grave, close to his head and touching the blade of a bronze axe which he carried over his shoulder. This grave is situated in what would appear to have been a military cemetery in the latter half of the Boyal Cemetery period. This at least is the inference which Dr. Woolley draws from the number of battle axes, adze-shaped axes and daggers which have been found in this area. An interesting feature in the economy of the city is conjectured to interpret the existence in the very heart of the town of an area which throughout the history of Ur was a mere rubbish heap. A section shows that while this rubbish heap was continually receiving additions, it was at the same time constantly being removed to provide material for the terraces on which new buildings were erected.

Shooter's Hill: Projected Military Cemetery

Journal Article Shooter's Hill: Projected Military Cemetery Get access W. B. H. W. B. H. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Notes and Queries, Volume s12-X, Issue 211, 29 April 1922, Page 330, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/s12-X.211.330f Published: 29 April 1922

Inscription in the Military Cemetery of Eve Leary, British Guiana

Inscription in the Military Cemetery of Eve Leary, British Guiana Get access Oxon Oxon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Notes and Queries, Volume s9-III, Issue 61, 25 February 1899, Pages 143–144, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/s9-III.61.143 Published: 25 February 1899

Results of meteorological observations made at the British military cemetery, scutari, constantinoples 1866–1885

Results of meteorological observations made at the British military cemetery, scutari, constantinoples 1866–1885