Voices from the Front: An Oral History of the Great War

by Peter Hart

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190464933
• ISBN13: 9780190464936
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Oxford Univ PR
• Length: 442 Pages
• Weight: 1.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.4" x 9.4"