Missing of the Somme Local Authors & Illustrators Under Fire drew criticism at

Under Fire drew criticism at the time of its publication for its harsh realism

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

almost two years later

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

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 Under Fire drew criticism atDescription 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,