The World at War: The Landmark Oral History from the Previously Unpublished Archives - Softcover

Holmes, Richard

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9780091917524: The World at War: The Landmark Oral History from the Previously Unpublished Archives

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ISBN 10: 0091917522 ISBN 13: 9780091917524

Publisher: Ebury Press, 2008

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A television work on the Second World War, this work tells the story of the war through the testimony of key participants - from civilians to soldiers, from statesmen to generals. It includes interviews of: Albert Speer, Karl Wolff (Himmler's adjutant), Traudl Junge (Hitler's secretary) and James Stewart (USAAF bomber pilot and Hollywood star).

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Review:

"The World at War was one of the greatest television series of all time. It demonstrated the potential power of history on television and inspired a generation. It is tremendously exciting that the complete interviews with the participants from The World at War are now published here for the first time. Most of the people who were interviewed for the series are now dead, but their vital history - thanks to this book - still lives" (Laurence Rees, author of AUSCHWITZ)

"A treasure trove of eye-witness accounts" (BBC History Magazine)

From the Author:

"When I was first invited to edit the archive of interview transcripts compiled when the series was made, there was a real sense of excitement and discovery as the door to the filing cabinet grunted open. It was immediately clear, as I flicked through the files, that there was far, far more material than was ever aired...I suspect that only about 10% of the interview material was ever broadcast...My abiding memory of a project which has claimed the best part of a year of my working life is of the sheer scale of The World at War and its triumphant and enduring success. I doubt if we shall even see something of this epic dimension carried off with such panache again...In a small way this series has changed the way that I personally looked at history, and in a broader sense it changed television's relationship with the past. These transcripts, lying in the dusty darkness for half my lifetime, have something fresh to say about this war which shaped the world I grew up in, and whose long shadow, even now, is only beginning to recede."

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