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Item Details
Title:
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THE MISSING OF THE SOMME
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By: |
Geoff Dyer |
Format: |
Paperback |
List price:
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£9.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
1842124501 |
ISBN 13: |
9781842124505 |
Publisher: |
ORION PUBLISHING CO |
Pub. date: |
19 July, 2001 |
Pages: |
176 |
Description: |
An original, highly personal, meditation upon war and remembrance weaving a network of myth and memory, photos and films, poetry and sculptures, graveyards and ceremonies that illuminate our understanding of, and relationship to, the Great War. 'Brilliant...the great Great War book of our time' Observer |
Synopsis: |
'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. |
Illustrations: |
23 B/W Photo\Illu(s) |
Publication: |
UK |
Imprint: |
Weidenfeld & Nicolson History |
Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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