The Missing of the Somme is part travelogue, part meditation on remembrance—& completely, unabashedly unlike any other book about the First World War. Through visits to battlefields & memorials, Geoff Dyer examines the way that photographs & film, poetry and prose, determined—sometimes in advance of the events described—the way we would think about and remember the war. With his characteristic originality & insight, Dyer untangles & reconstructs the network of myth & memory that illuminates our understanding of, & relationship to, the Great War. Reissued with a new introduction, The Missing of the Somme stands as one of Dyer’s classic works. nostr:note1wrhxfryqtvrq4jgwt8dd2hr5zhfvesnwyppv7usex90742nv9dds06dq4n