Unless you are a hard core WWI military history buff or in need of primary sources to add to an academic paper, skip this. I liked the first chapter and the opening paragraphs of each chapter where Max Arthur gives the reader a path to the events in each chapter before turning the narrative to those...
This is a set of transcriptions of recording made of veterans of the first world war telling their stories. Started by the Imperial War museum in 1972, it is an incredibly valuable archive of memory, especially now it is outside living memory. having said that, i'm not sure this is necessarily the b...
Since the late 1990s, there have been a spate of books in the market on the First World War, re-examining its effects on the present day and hearing again the voices of its dwindling number of veterans.Now, with the passing of the last veteran 5 months ago, they are all gone and with them, that livi...
In view of cutbacks in education, health care, and threatened pension reductions for public sector employees in today's Britain, this book makes for sober reading. Here the reader hears the voices of people from various walks of life who lived in Britain as it was during the Edwardian Age (1901-1910...