Veterans, World War I - General & Miscellaneous, Art Subjects - General & Miscellaneous, Individual Campaigns - World War I

The Missing of the Somme

Name: The Missing of the Somme
Author: Geoff Dyer
ISBN: 9781842124505

by Geoff Dyer

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Overview

"Head bowed, rifle on his back, a soldier is silhouetted against the going down of the sun, looking at the grave of a dead comrade, remembering him..." A poetic and impressionistic tribute to those who perished in World War I--and those who lived, haunted by their memories.

Synopsis

'Head bowed, rifle on his back, a soldier is silhouetted against the going down of the sun, looking at the grave of a dead comrade, remembering him. A photograph from the war, is also a photograph of the way the war will be remembered. It is a photograph of the future, of the future's view of the past. We will remember them.'Relying more on personal impressions than systematic analysis, Geoff Dyer weaves a network of myth and memory that illuminates our own relation to the past.

About the Author, Geoff Dyer

Geoff Dyer

Geoff Dyer is the author of Ways of Telling, critical study of John Berger; The Missing of the Somme, about World War I; and the novels Paris Trance, Out of Sheer Rage, The Color of Memory and The Search.