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Voices from the Front - An Oral History of the Great War (Hardcover)
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Voices from the Front - An Oral History of the Great War (Hardcover)
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In the 1980s and early 1990s, Peter Hart, then a young oral
historian at the Imperial War Museum in London, conducted 183
interviews with British World War I veterans. After the death of
the last veteran in 2009, these interviews have become a rare and
invaluable record of the Great War, as remembered by the men who
experienced it. The men spoke to Hart of the familiar horrors of
the war-poison gas, lice, muddy trenches, newly minted tanks, and
sinking ships-enriching each memory with personal anecdote,
shedding light on war's effect on soldiers both in wartime and
during the years that followed. Hart now returns to these
interviews in Voices from the Front. His new book not only provides
a narrative timeline of the events of 1914 to 1918, but restores
individuality and humanity to the men who were often treated like
expendable resources. Hart uses the transcripts of these
conversations as a framework on which to build a unique depiction
of Britain's experience of the war-one separated from the boastful
exaggerations or, alternatively, the underplaying euphemisms often
found in letters mailed home or to fellow soldiers. By including
the testimonies of men such as William Holbrook, who was just 15
when he enlisted, as well as Harold Bing, an anti-war demonstrator,
Hart breathes new life into the experiences of both young soldiers
and those who morally opposed the war. The result is history as
both narrative and recollection; war experienced first-hand but
looked at now from a great distance. Here is an intimate and
humanized account of the first great cataclysm of the twentieth
century, one endured by the men whose voices we hear in this book,
and whose legacies are with us still.
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