Forgotten voices of the second world war book also available for. Ask students what they know about the great war 19141918. In order to assemble all the narratives for forgotten voices of world war ii, editor max arthur and his team of researchers were given unlimited access to the complete collection of world war ii audiotapes accumulated by the british imperial war museum. The resulting book is an important and compelling history of wwi in the words of those who experienced it.
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Forgotten voices is a series of audio tapes and books put together by the imperial war museum. In 1960, the imperial war museum began a momentous and important task. Author max arthur puts the interviews into chronological and campaign order, and provides some context about the events that surround the memories. In 1960, the imperial war museum began a momentous and important. Skilfully assembled by acclaimed author and historian max arthur using the iwms remarkable sound archive, forgotten voices of the great war. A team of academics, archivists and volunteers set about tracing. Forgotten voices of world war ii brings us the voices of those who had a hand in the greatest war of the twentieth century.
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