The Missing of the Somme

by Geoff Dyer

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'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.
  • ISBN10 1842124501
  • ISBN13 9781842124505
  • Publish Date 19 July 2001 (first published 29 June 1995)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 20 January 2009
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Orion Publishing Co
  • Imprint Weidenfeld & Nicolson History
  • Format Paperback (UK Trade)
  • Pages 176
  • Language English