The Missing of the Somme African American History The photographs span the many

The photographs span the many battlefronts throughout the world: from the British Isles to the south Atlantic

In dark skirts and bloodied boots

Drawing on the diaries

was conscripted into the army at the age of eighteen and sent to the Western Front from where he would never return

From then on the sergeant has to try to lead the men through a hostile desert landscape which is full of invisible Arab snipers

The Missing of the Somme African American History The photographs span the manyDescription by Geoff Dyer Paperback 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 determinedsometimes in advance of the events describedthe way we would think about and remember the war. With his characteristic originality and