Voices from the Front: An Oral History of the Great War Local History then a siren blasts

then a siren blasts

placed tremendous faith in the gentlemanly strictures of warfare that for a century had kept civilian ships safe from attack

He claimed a special place in the hearts of his countrymen

whole populations lost their national identities as political systems

Voices from the Front: An Oral History of the Great War Local History then a siren blastsDescription 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