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Title: The Missing of the Somme by Geoff Dyer ISBN: 1-84212-450-1 Publisher: Phoenix Press, London WC2 Pub. Date: 31 December, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: That which I least expected...
Comment: I must confess that I bought this book only because Geoff Dyer wrote it and he is my favorite author and I am a completist. I figured it was an early novel, something to give me insight into his development.
Imagine my disappointment when it arrived and I discovered it was History. Mind you, I love history (check the other reviews I've written), but I tend to find a subject and read everything I can about before I burn out and move onto something else and I really couldn't be bothered to develop a new fascination for the Great War with so many others still going.
A year later, on a whim, I brought the book with me on vacation and found myself in Paris dining alone after marching against the war. It was the first book in my bag that I grabbed and by the end of dinner I was getting all choked up and teary-eyed. By chance sitting not so far from the Somme with this book in my hands, thinking of a war not yet started, at the table in the corner, it was very affecting. But I think anyone who is interested in this perspective will find it moving whether in peacetime or war, in Nebraska or Tokyo or Egypt.
The book itself succeeds because it's not about numbers and casualties, but how we remember these struggles and how we forget them at the same time. It succeeds by placing the reader not in the conflict, something he/she could never know, but in his/her own seat: remembering that which wasn't experienced. To say more would be to demean the book and Dyer's superb writing so just read it.
Rating: 5
Summary: How to explain the fascination of Flanders?
Comment: If you've ever wondered why it is you have a particular empathy with the soldiers of the first World War, especially of Flanders, this book is for you. It goes a long way towards explaining that peculiar fascination we have with the bravery of those who died, and how the details of this war, almost a hundred years later, can touch our hearts today in a way that nothing else can.
Rating: 4
Summary: Something Different
Comment: Geoff Dyer presents in this book a moving and multi-layered outcry against the slaughter and consequences of World War I -- the "Great War". The main theme is remembrance, private and public, and the manifestations of both in the post-war years in Great Britain. The role of well-known British poets who served and died in the War is woven throughout. This book is well written by a literate and talented author; however it may be difficult to follow for those not well steeped in the history of that period, and especially the fate of British Army units in various Western Front battles. The basic subject is well covered in printed literature; what Dyer adds here is yet another dissection of the far-reaching impacts of the cataclysmic years of 1914-1918.
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Title: Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling With D.H. Lawrence by Geoff Dyer ISBN: 0865475407 Publisher: North Point Press Pub. Date: 16 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Colour of Memory by Geoff Dyer ISBN: 0349109192 Publisher: Century Pub. Date: May, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It by Geoff Dyer ISBN: 0375422145 Publisher: Pantheon Books Pub. Date: 14 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: But Beautiful : A Book about Jazz by Geoff Dyer ISBN: 0865475083 Publisher: North Point Press Pub. Date: 26 June, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The First Day on the Somme: 1 July 1916 by Martin Middlebrook ISBN: 0850529433 Publisher: Pen & Sword Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $32.95 |
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