Missing of the Somme Local Authors & Illustrators And the war brought a

And the war brought a wave of foreigners to the city for the first time

with firsthand testimony conjuring the real mud and blood of the combat that Edward Lengel so vividly describes

to say goodbye to their fallen sons

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

she’s sent as a lady’s companion to an old family friend who is convalescing at a seaside hotel

Missing of the Somme Local Authors & Illustrators And the war brought aDescription 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,