The Missing of the Somme

Nonfiction, History, Military, World War I, Travel, Adventure & Literary Travel, Modern, 20th Century
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Author: Geoff Dyer ISBN: 9780307743237
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Publication: August 9, 2011
Imprint: Vintage Language: English
Author: Geoff Dyer
ISBN: 9780307743237
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication: August 9, 2011
Imprint: Vintage
Language: English

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.

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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.

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