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Forgotten Voices of the Great War: The Somme and Back to Ypres - July 1916-July 1917 (Forgotten Voices) (Audio cassette)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours | |Short Description for Forgotten Voices of the Great WarUsing archive material from the Imperial War Museum, the story of World War I, from the Battle of the Somme in July 1916 to the third Battle of Ypres one year later, is told in the words of the men who were there. These are the forgotten voices of an entire generation of survivors of the Great War.
Full description- Publisher: Random House Audiobooks
- Published: 02 October 2003
- Format: Audio cassette 1 pages
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- Categories: General & World History | British & Irish History | Oral History | Military History | First World War
- ISBN 13: 9781856866873 ISBN 10: 1856866874
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Full description for Forgotten Voices of the Great War
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. (There are over 2,500 interviews, some as long as 20 hours long). As a result, those seeking first person quotations for their works have only used a tiny fraction of the available pre-transcribed material. 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. Their stories have rested unheard for almost half a century, and nearly all of those interviewed have since passed away. The resulting book, 1917, covers the Battle of Arras, Neville offensive, battle of Messines and the third battle of Ypres better known as Passchendaele. Battle of Cambrai. America enters the war.
