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We Will Remember Them: Voices From the Aftermath of the Great War
by
Max Arthur
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Published to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the end of World War I, We Will Remember Them commemorates the veterans who are no longer among us. Featuring an introduction by the 110-year-old Henry Allingham—the only living survivor of the Battle of the Somme—this new anthology will contain interviews with the families of Wor...more
Hardcover, 276 pages
Published
January 5th 2010
by Weidenfeld & Nicolson
(first published 2009)
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Phenomenal book as all of Max Arthur's books are. "We Will Remember Them" is a compilation of accounts from the survivors of the First World War which details the joy and perhaps surprisingly the sadness of many on the Armistice. The book then goes on to deal with the hardships those who had lived through it found in their attempts to adjust back into normal lives; the ending of marriages, the loss of limbs, the advent of prosthetics and the curse of shell-shock. These are the often fo...more
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Max Arthur is an author who specialises in first-hand recollections of historical events. He has worked closely with the Imperial War Museum to bring together two books in the Forgotten Voices series, Forgotten Voices of the Great War and Forgotten Voices of the Second World War. Prior to becoming a writer, he served with the Royal Air Force and for some years was an actor.
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