" "Tell me about the war" -- these words launched a ten-year
project in oral history by a husband-and-wife team. Howard Hoffman
fought in World War II from Cassino to the Elbe as a mortar crewman
and a forward observer. His war experiences are of intrinsic
interest to readers who seek a foot soldier's view of those
historic events. But the principal purpose of this study was to
explore the bounds of memory, to gauge its accuracy and its
stability over time, and to determine the effects of various
efforts to enhance it. Alice Hoffman, a historian, initiated the
study because she recognized the critical role of memory in
gathering oral history; Howard Hoffman, the subject, is an
experimental psychologist. Alice's tape-recorded interviews with
her husband over a period of ten years are the basic material of
the study, which compares the events as recounted in the first
phase of the interviews with later accounts of the same experiences
and with the written records of his company as well as the memories
of fellow soldiers and the evidence of photographs and other
documents. This engrossing story of World War II breaks new ground
for practitioners of oral history. The Hoffmans' findings indicate
that a subset of human memory exists that is so permanent and
resistant to change that it can properly be labeled "archival." In
addition to describing some of the circumstances under which
archival memories are formed, the Hoffmans describe the conditions
that were found to influence their storage and retrieval.
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