A fascinating history of World War I in the words of the men who were
there -- "an extraordinary and immensely moving book." --Stephen Fry
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.