Title: The missing of the Somme
First published: 1995
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.
Subjects: Art and the war, Campaigns, Monuments, Moral and ethical aspects, Moral and ethical aspects of World War, 1914-1918, Public opinion, Soldiers' monuments, Somme, 1st Battle of the, France, 1916, Somme, 2nd Battle of the, France, 1918, War memorials, World War, 1914-1918, World war, 1914-1918, influence, World war, 1914-1918, art and the war, World war, 1914-1918, campaigns, World war, 1914-1918, france, Military campaigns, Causes, Psychological aspects
Places: Europe, France
LC classification: D663 .D97 2001