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A new history in the words of the men and women who survived by lyn smith following the success of forgotten voices of the great war, lyn smith visits the oral accounts preserved in the imperial war museum sound archive, to reveal the sheer complexity and horror of one of human historys darkest hours. The imperial war museum holds a vast archive of interviews with soldiers, sailors, airmen and civilians of most national. Its first day, july 1st 1916 on which the british suffered 57,470 casualties, including 19,240 dead is the bloodiest day in the. In 2002, ebury press published the first edition of forgotten voices of the great war. Aug 31, 2012 forgotten voices of the great war ebook written by max arthur. Max arthur is an author who specialises in first hand recollections of historical events. Forgotten voices of the second world war paperback may 1, 2005. His books of which the best known are forgotten voices of the great war 2002 and forgotten voices of the second world war 2004 are. Forgotten voices of the great war by max arthur waterstones. He has worked closely with the imperial war museum to bring together two books in the forgotten voices series, forgotten voices of the great war and forgotten voices of the second world war. Skilfully assembled by acclaimed author and historian max arthur using the iwms remarkable sound archive, forgotten voices of the great war.
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