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Het geluidsarchief van het Imperial War Museum bevat talloze interviews met soldaten, matrozen, piloten en burgers van verschillende nationaliteiten, die allen de Tweede Wereldoorlog hebben meegemaakt. Historicus Max Arthur spendeerde met zijn team van onderzoekers honderden uren in dit archief en ontdekte veel materiaal waar nooit meer naar geluisterd was sinds het archief was opgericht. Het resultaat is de eerste complete orale geschiedenis van de Tweede Wereldoorlog, opgetekend in chronologische volgorde - vanaf het begin van de oorlog via belangrijke episodes als Pearl Harbour, de oorlog met Japan en D-Day, tot de veldtocht in Duitsland zelf. De verhalen van Vergeten stemmen van de Tweede Wereldoorlog zijn aangrijpend en levendig. Deze unieke verzameling van honderden persoonlijke verhalen brengt een van de meest traumatische periodes uit de menselijke geschiedenis opnieuw tot leven.

Lost Voices of The Royal Navy is based entirely on first-hand accounts of naval action between 1914 and 1945, with vivid recollections from Gallipoli to the Far East, by way of the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, Max Arthur, author of the international bestseller Forgotten Voices of the Great War, has woven a unique narrative history of life at sea: Lost Voices of the Royal Navy is a memorable and moving testament to the courage, spirit, skill and irrepressible humour of those who served in the Royal Navy during the crucial years from 1914 to 1945.

In 1960 a team of archivists from the Imperial War Museum began the task of tracking down ordinary World War I veterans and interviewing them in detail about their war experiences. This text includes first-hand experiences from German, US, Canadian and ANZ soldiers.

Charting the BEA's entry into warfare in 1914, he tells the story in words and pictures of the new conscripted army's life through the five years of slaughter and suffering. He brilliantly conveys not only the heroism, but also the universal horror, futility, humour and boredom of warfare. From the front-line troops and the daily dice with death, to the support lines, communications, enlistment, training and propaganda. Every aspect of the soldiers life will be covered here, in this brilliant collection of images and interviews, that brings the Great War to life once more.

Gripping eyewitness stories from eighty years of British flying in war and peace Max Arthur, bestselling author of FORGOTTEN VOICES: THE GREAT WAR, presents this moving collection of first-hand accounts of life in the Royal Air Force, from 1918 to the present day. LOST VOICES OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE records the role of the RAF in World War II, and, particularly, the Battle of Britain and the desert battles of North Africa, as well as in the Falklands and in the Gulf War. Through original interviews with air and ground crew, the spirit and comradeship, the stress, courage, isolation, vulnerability and the wonder of the wartime flying experience is vividly explored.

Reproduced on high quality postcard stock, this original photograph album contains editorials from SS General Major Julius Schreck, Dr. Otto Dietrich, General Wilhelm Bruckner, First Lieutenant Foertsch and SS General Major Julius Schaub.

‘Never has so much been owed by so many, to so few.’ This is the story of those few, in their own words. In the summer of 1940, the British frontlines were the skies above southern England. Spitfires and Hurricanes took on the might of the Luftwaffe, and its feared Messerschmitt fighters, dogfighting high above civilians watching on in awe.Hitler was determined to invade Britain and close down the Western Front for good. But his plan – Operation Sea Lion – could not begin while the RAF could still harry an invasion fleet. It had to be broken.Up to five times a day, the pilots of RAF Fighter Command scrambled to meet the inbound Luftwaffe. At one point, every available British fighter plane was airborne – Britain threw literally everything into the fight, and was tested to the very limits. Against all odds 'The Few', as they came to be known, bought Britain's freedom – many with their lives.These are the personal accounts of the pilots who fought and survived that battle. We will not see their like again.