Voices from the Front
Subtitle: an oral history of the Great War
By: Peter Hart
Publisher: Profile Books; Profile Books Ltd
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9781781254745; 9781782831723
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; British Personal narratives; Campaigns; Military campaigns
Description: "Every man who served in the Great War is now deceased, but they have left behind them an enormous collection of oral history, which captures the authentic voices of the front line soldiers. In Voices from the Front, oral historian Peter Hart brings together accounts from across the conflict, from soldiers, sailors and airmen, from officers and privates alike. In the course of his research, he talked to men who saw their friends die in front of them, who were seriously wounded themselves, men who refused to fight on principle and those whose indomitable spirit carried them through thick and thin. Sometimes they were there at crucial turning points in the war - going over the top in the slaughter of the Somme in 1916 or punching through the German lines to victory in 1918 - and sometimes they sweated, toiled and suffered on a forgotten front, thousands of miles from home. In the vein of The Beauty and the Sorrow, this is the First World War seen through the eyes of the men who experienced it for themselves." --Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: All over by Christmas!; title: 1914: the death of an army; title: Ready for war?; title: 1915: Western Front; title: Way out east, 1914-18; title: 1916: Western Front; title: All at sea, 1914-18; title: Life in the trenches; title: 1917: Western Front; title: Up in the air, 1914-18; title: 1918: German spring offensives; title: 1918: advance to victory; title: Aftermath of war.