The missing of the Somme
By: Geoff Dyer
Publisher: Phoenix; Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 157
ISBN-13: 9780753827543
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; Monuments; Campaigns; Art and the war; War memorials; Military campaigns
Description: '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.
Notes: Originally published: London: Hamish Hamilton, 1994.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-151) and index.