Physical description

Blue hardcover book. Title and author in black print across the spine. Torn white sticker label at the base of the spine. The front cover has a double border of thin black lines, inside the border the title is printed across the top and the author at the bottom.

Publication type

non-fiction

Inscriptions & markings

'PROPERTY OF VICTORIAN BRANCH R.S.L.' [Stamped in red ink on the bottom and side edges]
'355.699 / HUR / A151' [handwritten in pencil on the inside front cover]
'VICTORIAN BRANCH / LIBRARY / ANZAC HOUSE' [Stamped in red ink on first and title page]
'Passed on from my bookshelves to / those of the RSSAILA:ANZAC HOUSE:Melbourne / With every best wish to you all / Always Sincerely Yours / Jeannie Jones? / Hawthorn. November 5th 1956' [Handwritten in black ink on the first page]

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.