Forgotten Voices of the Great War : A New History of WWI in the Words of the Men
A fascinating history of World War I in the words of the men who were there -- "an extraordinary and immensely moving book." --Stephen FryIn 1960, the Imperial War Museum began a momentous and…
Specifikacia Forgotten Voices of the Great War : A New History of WWI in the Words of the Men
A fascinating history of World War I in the words of the men who were there -- "an extraordinary and immensely moving book." --Stephen FryIn 1960, the Imperial War Museum began a momentous and important task. A team of academics, archivists and volunteers set about tracing WWI veterans and interviewing them at length in order to record the experiences of ordinary individuals in war. The IWM aural archive has become the most important archive of its kind in the world. Authors have occasionally been granted access to the vaults, but digesting the thousands of hours of footage is a monumental task.Now, forty years on, the Imperial War Museum has at last given author Max Arthur and his team of researchers unlimited access to the complete WWI tapes. These are the forgotten voices of an entire generation of survivors of the Great War. The resulting book is an important,
Making History: The Great War
In the Shadow of the Great War
The War of Words
Forgotten Voices of D-Day