Description

Geoff Dyer’s vintage The Missing of the Somme is part travelogue, part meditation on remembrance—and completely, openly, unlike every other book concerning the First-World War. Through trips to battlefields and memorials, he investigates the way that pictures and poetry, video and writing determined—sometimes prior to the occasions described—the way we'd recall the battle and consider. Together with his characteristic awareness and creativity, Dyer reconstructs and untangles the community of storage and fantasy that illuminates our knowledge of, and connection to, the Truly Amazing War.