The Missing of the Somme

The Missing of the Somme is part travelogue, part meditation on remembrance—and 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 determined—sometimes in advance of the events described—the way we would think about and remember the war. With his characteristic originality and insight, Dyer untangles and reconstructs the network of myth and memory that illuminates our understanding of, and relationship to, the Great War.

• Regeneration (Contemporary Fiction, Plume)
• Poetry of the First World War: An Anthology (Oxford World's Classics)
• Women and the First World War
• The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River (Hill and Wang Critical Issues)
• But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz
• World War I: The American Soldier Experience
• The Great War and Modern Memory
• Testament of Youth (Penguin Classics)
• Under a Cruel Star: A Life in Prague, 1941-1968
• Ornamentalism: How the British Saw Their Empire