{"product_id":"voices-from-the-front-an-oral-history-of-the-great-war-9780190464936","title":"Voices from the Front: An Oral History of the Great War","description":"In the 1980s and early 1990s, Peter Hart, then a young oral historian at the Imperial War Museum in London, conducted 183 interviews with British World War I veterans. After the death of the last veteran in 2009, these interviews have become a rare and invaluable record of the Great War, as\u003cbr\u003eremembered by the men who experienced it. The men spoke to Hart of the familiar horrors of the war-poison gas, lice, muddy trenches, newly minted tanks, and sinking ships-enriching each memory with personal anecdote, shedding light on war's effect on soldiers both in wartime and during the years\u003cbr\u003ethat followed. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHart now returns to these interviews in \u003cem\u003eVoices from the Front\u003c\/em\u003e. His new book not only provides a narrative timeline of the events of 1914 to 1918, but restores individuality and humanity to the men who were often treated like expendable resources. Hart uses the transcripts of these conversations as a\u003cbr\u003eframework on which to build a unique depiction of Britain's experience of the war-one separated from the boastful exaggerations or, alternatively, the underplaying euphemisms often found in letters mailed home or to fellow soldiers. By including the testimonies of men such as William Holbrook, who\u003cbr\u003ewas just 15 when he enlisted, as well as Harold Bing, an anti-war demonstrator, Hart breathes new life into the experiences of both young soldiers and those who morally opposed the war. The result is history as both narrative and recollection; war experienced first-hand but looked at now from a\u003cbr\u003egreat distance. Here is an intimate and humanized account of the first great cataclysm of the twentieth century, one endured by the men whose voices we hear in this book, and whose legacies are with us still.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Hart\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 442\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.40h x 6.40w x 1.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780190464936\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePeter Hart \u003c\/strong\u003eis Oral Historian of the Imperial War Museum in London and the author of \u003cem\u003eGallipoli\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Great War: A Combat History of the First World War\u003c\/em\u003e, and Fire and \u003cem\u003eMovement: The British Expeditionary Force and the Campaign of 1914\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40377892831347,"sku":"9.78019E+12","price":54.09,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_fa6ea05e-2f61-4781-96c6-8110301c1a68.jpg?v=1661261628","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/voices-from-the-front-an-oral-history-of-the-great-war-9780190464936","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}