The Voice of War: The Second World War Told by Those Who Fought It - Softcover

Walters, Guy; Owen, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141012676 ISBN 13: 9780141012674

Publisher: Penguin, 2005

Synopsis

Collection of histories by personal account of the second world war. In depth and detailed and eclectic. Great history.Softback. Intact and clean and undamaged.Ex library item with extra see through protection.

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Review:

'Extraordinary' -- Sunday Times

A "must buy" volume, as it is of significant historical importance and a valuable source of reference for the future. -- Michael Booker, rollofhonour.com, January 2005

Hugely varied, endlessly fascinating, remarkable. I got the feeling that this is how it really was. -- Sunday Herald, November 2004

Synopsis:

The Second World War was the first truly global conflict and sixty years on its consequences continue to shape the modern world. Season by season The Voice of War charts the course of the central event of the twentieth century using the diaries, letters and memoirs of those who were there, from Russian women fighter pilots to the prisoners of the Japanese to Londoners enduring the Blitz. Their first-hand accounts place us on the ramparts of Colditz, in the hiding places of the Warsaw Ghetto, aboard a dive bomber at Pearl Harbor, with Rommel in the desert and by Churchill's side in Downing Street. Unrivalled in the immediacy, range and power of the experiences it contains, it includes writing by, among others, Joseph Goebbels, Benito Mussolini, Christabel Bielenberg, Noel Coward, Robert Capa, Airey Neave, George Patton, Hermione Ranfurly, Arthur Koestler, James Lees-Milne, Martha Gellhorn, Sophia Loren and Primo Levi. Ambitious, instructive and entertaining, this is the definitive portrait of a world at war.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0141012676
• ISBN 13: 9780141012674
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 656
• Editor: Walters Guy, Owen James