Voices from the Front: An Oral History of the Great War Local History He claimed a special place

He claimed a special place in the hearts of his countrymen

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

the devastated Elinor refuses to accept it

Encouraged by the bold spirit and strength of the untested Americans

and a broken heart

Voices from the Front: An Oral History of the Great War Local History He claimed a special placeDescription 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