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Friday November 20, 2009
Title:Forgotten Voices of the Great War
Authors: Max Arthur
Library Location:940.4 FORGOTTEN
Forgotten Voices of the Great War
From the inside flap:
In 1972 the British Imperial War Museum set about the momentous task of tracing ordinary veterans of World War I and interviewing them in detail about their experiences. The Imperial War Museum Sound Archive. . . has since grown to be the most important collection of its kind in the world. . . .
These recordings, many of which have remained unheard for decades, contain the forgotten voices of a generation no longer with us. Only a small fraction of the material has been used by historians. Now, thirty years later, after hundreds of hours in the archive and unlimited access to the complete World War I audiotapes, acclaimed author Max Arthur and his team of researchers have created this remarkable landmark history of the Great War—told in the words of the ordinary men and women who experienced it in the raw.
Excerpt:
Private Reginald Leonard Haine
1st Battalion, Honourable Artillery Company
So I went right up to the front, where I was met by a sergeant-major at a desk. My friend introduced me to the sergeant, who said, ‘Are you willing to join?’ I said, ‘Yes Sir.’ He said, ‘Well, how old are you?’ I said, ‘I am eighteen and one month.’ He said, ‘Do you mean nineteen and one month?’ So I thought a moment and said, ‘Yes Sir.’ He said, ‘Right-ho, well sign here please.’ He said, ‘You realize you can go overseas?’ So that was my introduction to the Army.
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