The Missing of the Somme

Dyer, Geoff

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Author
Dyer, Geoff
Publish Date
20110809
Book Type
Paperback
Number of Pages
176
Publisher Name
239
ISBN-10
0307742970
ISBN-13
9780307742971
citemno
179543
Edition
Original
SKU
9780307742971

Description

The Missing of the Somme is part travelogue, part meditation on remembrance—and completely, unabashedly, unlike any other book about the First World War. Through visits to battlefields and memorials, Geoff Dyer examines the way that photographs and film, poetry and prose determined—sometimes in advance of the events described—the way we would think about and remember the war. With his characteristic originality and insight, Dyer untangles and reconstructs the network of myth and memory that illuminates our understanding of, and relationship to, the Great War.