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"Every man who served in the Great War is now deceased, but they have left behind them an enormous collection of oral history, which captures the authentic voices of the front line soldiers. In Voices from the Front, oral historian Peter Hart brings together accounts from across the conflict, from soldiers, sailors and airmen, from officers and privates alike. In the course of his research, he talked to men who saw their friends die in front of them, who were seriously wounded themselves, men who refused to fight on principle and those whose indomitable spirit carried them through thick and thin. Sometimes they were there at crucial turning points in the war - going over the top in the slaughter of the Somme in 1916 or punching through the German lines to victory in 1918 - and sometimes they sweated, toiled and suffered on a forgotten front, thousands of miles from home. In the vein of The Beauty and the Sorrow, this is the First World War seen through the eyes of the men who experienced it for themselves." --Publisher description.
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Campaigns, World War, 1914-1918, British Personal narratives, World war, 1914-1918, personal narratives, World war, 1914-1918, great britain, World war, 1914-1918, campaigns, Great britain, army, World war, 1939-1945, campaigns, africa, World war, 1939-1945, regimental histories, World war, 1939-1945, great britain, World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924Places
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Voices from the Front: an oral history of the Great War
2015, Profile Books, Profile Books Ltd
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1781254745 9781781254745
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Voices from the front: the South Notts Hussars : the Western Desert, 1940-1942
2010, Pen & Sword Military
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1473818451 9781473818453
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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 valuable record of the Great War as remembered by the men who experienced it themselves. Hart uses these interviews as a framework on which to build a more detailed, varied and individualistic depiction of Britain's experience of the First World War. By including quotes from men such as William Holbrook, who was just 15 when he enlisted, Hart is able to examine the experience of adolescent and young adult soldiers during the War; moreover, through his inclusion of testimony from men such as Harold Bing, who attended the Trafalgar Square anti-war demonstration, Hart provides readers with a vision of an attitude towards the War that was completely alternate from young enlisters like Holbrook. The result of the book's testimonial focus is history as both narrative and recollection; war experienced first-hand but looked at now from a great distance, ultimately giving the reader a feel for what the trenches were like, rather than a strict retelling of battles. It is this blend of narrative and recollection, experience and distance that will allow the reader to both empathize with, and learn from, the unique and unforgettable perspectives of the men that survived the First World War."--From publisher description.
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