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The Missing of the Somme

Book ID
126251418
Publisher
Canongate Books
Year
2012
Tongue
English
Weight
259 KB
Category
Standards

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✦ 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 poetic and impressionistic tribute to those who perished in World War I-and those who lived, haunted by their memories. "Brilliant-the Great War book of our time."-Observer.

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