Forgotten Voices Of The Great War

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Ebury Press
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2002
Edition: Reprint

Description: 326 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout. On The First Day Of The Somme Battle, Company After Company Went Forward. I Could Hear What They Were Going Into. I Waited All Day With My Company Lying In A Sunken Road And Believe Me, You Sweated Blood.

Publishers Description: A New History of WWI in the Words of the Men and Women Who Were There. In 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. (There are over 2,500 interviews, some as long as 20 hours long). As a result, those seeking first-person quotations for their works have only used a tiny traction of the available pre-transcribed material. 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. Their stories have rested unheard for almost half a century, and nearly all of those interviewed have since passed away. The resulting book is an important, unique and compelling story of WWI in the words of those who experienced it.

ISBN: 9780091882099