Voices from the Front: An Oral History of the Great War

Voices from the Front: An Oral History of the Great WarDescription by Peter Hart Hardcover 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 remembered by the men who experienced it. The men spoke to Hart of the familiar horrors of the war poison gas, lice, muddy

her brother’s best friend

the Russian Legion of Honor

And she was a girl

the empire never recovered

and French premier Georges Clemenceau—met in Paris to shape a lasting peace

exploring actual cases of casualties who recorded their experiences

A thirteen-year-old Welsh boy enters a man’s world in the mining pits

even though Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone

But he soon came to realize that to get the whole story

Russians and Serbs inflicted three million casualties upon one another by Christmas

The number of soldiers wounded in World War I is

said that in thirty-six hours the doughboys would crack the German defenses and open the road to Berlin