Missing of the Somme Local Authors & Illustrators by Benjamin Taylor

by Benjamin Taylor

with a focus almost entirely on English-language sources and a narrow view of the conflict through two main prisms—the Eastern Front and the Western Front

by Suzanne Feldman

Under Fire drew criticism at the time of its publication for its harsh realism

almost two years later

Missing of the Somme Local Authors & Illustrators by Benjamin TaylorDescription By Geoff Dyer Paperback A deeply personal meditation on remembrance, art, and World War I by the legendary Geoff Dyer, reissued with a new introduction by Drew Gilpin Faust The Missing of the Somme is part travelogue, part meditation on remembranceand 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,