The Missing of the Somme
- 30 Jun 2016
- 9781782119265
- £10.99
- 240 pp
- 129×198mm
- 8 Nov 2018
- 9781786894144
- £20.99
- 5 hrs 7 min
- 8 Nov 2012
- 9780857863379
- £8.79
- 224 pp
In a few words
Republished to mark the centenary of the battle of the Somme Geoff Dyer’s classic book is ‘the great Great War book of our time’ (Observer)
In a few words
A classic of war writing on the Battle of the Somme, Geoff Dyer’s classic book is ‘the great Great War book of our time’ (Observer)
In a few words
‘The great Great War book of our time.’ Observer
The great Great War book of our time
Articulates a response to the Great War which many feel, but no one has analysed so scrupulously
The great Great War book of our time
Articulates a response to the Great War which many feel, but no one has analysed so scrupulously
Articulates a response to the Great War which many feel, but no one has analysed so scrupulously
A gentle, patient, loving book. It is about mourning and memory, about how the Great War has been represented - and our sense of it shaped and defined - by different artistic media . . . its textures are the very rhythms of memory and consciousness
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the book
The Missing of the Somme has become a classic 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.
More about
the book
The Missing of the Somme has become a classic 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.
More about
the book
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.
A penetrating meditation upon war and remembrance
Dyer is excellent on the different ambitions and effects of municipal memorials, and on photographs and paintings
Sebastian Faulks
Mail on SundayA gentle, patient, loving book. It is about mourning and memory, about how the Great War has been represented - and our sense of it shaped and defined - by different artistic media
A penetrating meditation upon war and remembrance
Dyer is excellent on the different ambitions and effects of municipal memorials, and on photographs and paintings
Sebastian Faulks
Mail on SundayA gentle, patient, loving book. It is about mourning and memory, about how the Great War has been represented - and our sense of it shaped and defined - by different artistic media
A penetrating meditation upon war and remembrance
