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The Missing of the Somme

Book ID
107351793
Publisher
Canongate Books
Tongue
English
Weight
454 KB
Category
Standards

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ 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.

Geoff Dyer's classic book is an original and personal meditation upon war and remembrance. It weaves a network of myth and memory, photos and films, poetry and sculptures, graveyards and ceremonies that illuminate our understanding of, and relationship to, the Great War.

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