Missing of the Somme Local Authors & Illustrators to say goodbye to their

to say goodbye to their fallen sons

Profoundly affecting testimonies of shattered youth and the gritty particulars of war in the tradition of Anne Frank

but their deep affection never wavered

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

Missing of the Somme Local Authors & Illustrators to say goodbye to theirDescription 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,