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It was a typical village of the somme district, which is to say a cluster of smashed buildings with a crucifix at its main crossroad, and a collection of shelldamaged trees on its fringes that looked like halfburnt telegraph poles. Thus dyer commences his description of his experience at the thiepval memorial to the missing of the somme, which contains the names of over 73,000 british and french soldiers who died in the four month battle commencing in july, 1916, and who have no known grave. In this book, martin gilbert graphically recreates the tragedy, interweaving individual stories, wartime documents, letters and poetry in a. The memorial to the missing of the somme profile books.
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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. The missing of the somme kindle edition by geoff dyer. If it is a memory study focusing on monuments, the production value needs boosted by a factor of five. The missing of the somme by geoff dyer geoff dyers classic book is republished to mark the centenary of the battle of the somme.
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