The Quick and the Dead

At the end of the First World War more than 192,000 wives had lost their husbands, and nearly 400,000 children had lost their fathers. A further half a million children had lost one or more siblings. Appallingly, one in eight wives died within a year of receiving news of their husband''s death. Few people remained unscathed and the effects of the conflict are still with us. The Quick and the Dead ...