The Missing of the Somme African American History " the African American soldiers

" the African American soldiers of the 369th Infantry Regiment of World War I

After the defeat of Russia in 1917

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

This poster features a reproduction of the WWI-era poster for the U

and Palestine

The Missing of the Somme African American History " the African American soldiersDescription 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