Six months after the Armistice that ended World War I on November 11, 1919, when travel restrictions to former conflict zones were finally lifted, 60,000 people, most of them women, journeyed to find where their loved ones were buried. For many of the 8.5 million soldiers who died, the place and date of death remain unknown to this day. One British woman, who found her husband’s grave in the Somme said, “I have tried to think of it, and of him in it, and of what hell looks like. But I never imagined such loneliness and dreadfulness and sadness.” Read more about WWI and the women left behind in On the Shore (see NOVELS).
