Captain Rosalie Rebecca Solnit The Missing of the Somme

The Missing of the Somme has become a classic meditation upon war and remembrance

and possibility

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knew a good thing when he saw it

Captain Rosalie Rebecca Solnit The Missing of the SommeTimothe de Fombelle and Isabelle Arsenault capture the heart wrenching cost of war for one small girl in a delicately drawn, expertly told tale. While her father is at war, five year old Rosalie is a captain on her own secret mission. She wears the disguise of a little girl and tracks her progress in a secret notebook. Some evenings, Rosalies mother reads aloud Fathers letters from the front lines, so that Rosalie knows he is thinking of her and