Book description
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 history of WWI in the words of those
who experienced it. This is a classic for years to come.
Acclaimed author Max Arthur specialises in first hand recollections
of historical events. Previous titles include The Manchester United Air
Crash; Above All Courage; Northern Ireland Soldiers Talking; Men of the
Red Beret;, There Shall Be Wings: The RAF 1918 to the Present; The True
Glory: The Royal Navy 1914 to Present.
