British Armed Forces - Biography, Turkey - History, World War I - General & Miscellaneous, Australian Military History, World War I - War Narratives, Western Front - World War I, Individual Campaigns - World War I, Australia & New Zealand - World War I, W
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Overview
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.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, unique and compelling story of WWI in the words of those who experienced it. This is a classic for years to come.
Book Details
Published
August 31, 2012
Publisher
Ebury Publishing
ISBN
9781446446256