Forgotten Voices of the Great War
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Forgotten Voices of the Great War is a collection of interviews with people who lived through the first World War. The book is part of the Imperial War Museum
Imperial War Museum
Imperial War Museum is a British national museum organisation with branches at five locations in England, three of which are in London. The museum was founded during the First World War in 1917 and intended as a record of the war effort and sacrifice of Britain and her Empire...

's oral archive.

Author Max Arthur
Max Arthur
Max Arthur is an oral and military historian and author who specialises in first-hand recollections of historical events, particularly the two World Wars of the twentieth century. He has worked closely with the Imperial War Museum to bring together two books in the Forgotten Voices series,...

 puts the interviews into chronological and campaign order, and provides some context about the events that surround the memories.

This book has also been dramatised for the stage by playwright Malcolm McKay
Malcolm McKay
Malcolm McKay was born in Epping, London on the 12th of July, 1947. He studied at St Joseph's Convent primary, King Edward V1 Grammar, Chelmsford and Canley College of Education, Coventry...

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