Physical description

Paperback book with black cover. Title down the spine in white print. Front cover has a white border with title and author details printed inside in white text and a black and white photo of gravesites.

Publication type

non-fiction

Inscriptions & markings

'PROPERTY OF VICTORIAN BRANCH R.S.L.' [Stamped in red ink on the bottom edge and the title page]
'A4865 / 355.699 / HUR' [handwritten in pencil on the inside front cover]

Summary

Guide to the War Cemeteries in France and Flanders ... The Silent Cities was Rudyard Kipling's inspired name for the Cemeteries of the Western Front ... [provides] a complete guide to all Cemeteries containing war graves and all Memorials recording the Missing of the Forces of the British Empire who fell in France and Flanders during the Great War ... Some contain 'Special Memorials indicating officers and men whose graves have been destroyed by shell-fire or who are known or believed to be buried in that Cemetery--publisher's website.
Facsimile reprint. First published London : Methuen, 1929.