Forgotten Voices of the Great War: A New History of WWI in the Words of the Men and Women Who Were There - Couverture rigide

 
9780091882099: Forgotten Voices of the Great War: A New History of WWI in the Words of the Men and Women Who Were There

Synopsis

In 1960, the Imperial War Museum began a momentous and important task. A team of academics, archivists and volunteers set about tracing WW1 veterans and interviewing them at lenght in order to record the experiences of ordinary individuals in war. Now, forty years on, the resulting book is an important, unique and compelling story of WW1.

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Revue de presse

"heartbreaking, inspirational and very emotive" -- Cambridge Evening News

'An extraordinary and immensely moving book' -- Stephen Fry

'Ordinary men and women, the blurb says. These stories are so harrowing, their witness so precise and devastating, surely - 'extraordinary' -- The Times

'an extraordinary and immensely moving book' -- Stephen Fry

'one reads this book with bleeding eyes. It contains, as no other book, the First World War in the raw. --Sir Martin Gilbert

Présentation de l'éditeur

In 1960, the Imperial War Museum began a momentous and important task. A team of academics, archivists and volunteers set about tracing WW1 veterans and interviewing them at lenght in order to record the experiences of ordinary individuals in war. Now, forty years on, the resulting book is an important, unique and compelling story of WW1.

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