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The World at War: The Landmark Oral History from the Previously Unpublished Archives - Richard Holmes

Description: ISBN 0091917514 / Author: Richard Holmes / Genre: History / Publisher: Ebury Press / The landmark history publishing event of the year - ... more

The World at War: The Landmark Oral History from the Previously Unpublished Archives - Richard Holmes ... a phenomenal oral history of the Second World War

Newest Review: ... the war (and earlier), starting with life in Hitler's Germany and ending with the start of the Cold War. Some of it is ... more

... interesting, some disturbing, and some quite funny. The interviews haven't been edited particularly, so they mirror speech patterns more than regular prose does. Some of the German or Japanese interviewees have quite garbled syntax, as their spoken English isn't perfect (much better than my German or Japanese, mind you). Perhaps the most notable negative is that on the whole it's a quite elitist collection of interviews. There's rather more of the generals and governments than of the regular people who were on the front l...more

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The World at War: The Landmark Oral History from the Previously Unpublished Archives - Richard Holmes: As seen on TV (821 words)
by - written on 14/05/08 (Very useful, 68 readings)
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The World At War was a groundbreaking documentary series about World War Two, first shown on ITV in 1973/4. Along with plenty of archive footage and music and classy narration from Laurence Olivier, it also offered extensive talking-head interviews with people who'd been involved in the war at all levels, from government ministers to humble infantrymen. This book for the first time puts most of the interviews into print, offering itself as a 'landmark oral history' of the war. It's edited by Richard Holmes, apparently a popular TV historian, although I've never heard of him. He breaks it up into chapters similar to the episodes of the series (although not ... Read the complete review