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Author: Max Arthur
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
Imprint: Ebury Press
Edition: New edition
Dimensions:
Width: 12.60cm
, Height: 2.90cm
, Length: 19.80cm
Weight: 0.333kg
ISBN: 9780091897352
ISBN 10: 0091897351
Pages: 496
Publication Date: 05 May 2005
Recommended Age: From 0 years
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
The sound of real human voices: bewildered, sad, often angry, sometimes bitter, bit for the most part remarkable...a shattered relay-race of narrative gives the book a ghostly, choric poetry - Saturday Telegraph ...breathe a sense of immediacy, of being there on the spot; and the spot is, only too often, a place of horror...thoroughly readable by anyone who wants to know what it felt like to be engaged in a world war....That war is horrible, no sensible reader can doubt; that this war was worth fighting, to get rid of barbaric regimes, comes across well - Spectator A unique collection of personal testimonies...a timely reminder of the sacrifices and horrors of war - Sunday Express With the rawness and immediacy that only this kind of oral history can provide - Sunday Times
The sound of real human voices: bewildered, sad, often angry, sometimes bitter, but for the most part remarkable ... a shattered relay-race of narrative gives the book a ghostly, choric poetry * Telegraph * A unique collection of personal testimonies ... a timely reminder of the sacrifices and horrors of war * Sunday Express * An extraordinary and immensely moving book -- Stephen Fry With the rawness and immediacy that only this kind of oral history can provide * Sunday Times * These stories are so harrowing, their witness so precise and devastating * The Times *
These stories are so harrowing, their witness so precise and devastating The Times With the rawness and immediacy that only this kind of oral history can provide Sunday Times An extraordinary and immensely moving book -- Stephen Fry A unique collection of personal testimonies ... a timely reminder of the sacrifices and horrors of war Sunday Express The sound of real human voices: bewildered, sad, often angry, sometimes bitter, but for the most part remarkable ... a shattered relay-race of narrative gives the book a ghostly, choric poetry Telegraph
Author Information
Acclaimed author Max Arthur specialises in first-hand recollections of historical events. Previous titles include The Manchester United Air Crash; Above All Courage; Northern Ireland- Soldiers Talking; Men of the Red Beret; There Shall Be Wings- The RAF 1918 to the Present; The True Glory- The Royal Navy 1914 to Present.
