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Country
  
United Kingdom

Series
  
Forgotten Voices

Publication date
  
2002

Author
  
Max Arthur

Genre
  
Non-fiction

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Language
  
English

Subject
  
History

Originally published
  
2002

Page count
  
352

Publisher
  
Ebury Publishing

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Media type
  
Print (hardcover and paperback), audiobook

Followed by
  
Forgotten Voices of the Blitz and the Battle of Britain

Similar
  
Max Arthur books, Non-fiction books, World War I books

Forgotten Voices of the Great War is a collection of interviews with people who lived through the First World War. The book is part of the Imperial War Museum's oral archive.

Author Max Arthur puts the interviews into chronological and campaign order, and provides some context about the events that surround the memories. The book includes testimonies from Harry Patch, Philip Neame, Horace Birks, Edmund Blunden, Douglas Wimberley, Mabel Lethbridge, Reginald Leonard Haine, Edward Spears, Godfrey Buxton, Henry Williamson, Tom Adlam, Cecil Arthur Lewis, Montagu Cleeve, Charles Carrington, Keith Officer and Norman Demuth.

This book has also been dramatised for the stage by the playwright Malcolm McKay.

References

Forgotten Voices of the Great War Wikipedia