The Voice of War: The Second World War Told By Those Who Fought It - Hardcover

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9780670914234: The Voice of War: The Second World War Told By Those Who Fought It

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ISBN 10: 0670914231 ISBN 13: 9780670914234

Publisher: Viking, 2004

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.

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Review:

...thoroughly readable by anyone who wants to know what it felt like to be engaged in a world war. -- MRD Foot, The Spectator, 16 October 2004

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

A literary treasure-trove...read and be dazzled. -- Soldier Magazine, November, 2004

A superb historic study, cleverly compiled using unique memoirs, fabulous value for money and very highly recommended for all ages! -- Military Books In Perspective, October 2004

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

Most of human life and death is here...the choices are invariably well-made, and given generous amounts of space. -- The Scotsman, 6 November 2004

Owen and Walters have trawled through most of the published memoirs to create this extraordinary anthology of first-hand accounts... -- The Sunday Times, October 11, 2004

About the Author:

James Owen was latterly acting editor of The Daily Telegraph Obituaries page and now writes regularly for the Financial Times and Conde Naste Traveller. He is also a contributor to the new Dictionary of National Biography. He is presently working on his first book, a study of colonial life during WWII. A former journalist on The Times, Guy Walters is the author of The Traitor, a thriller set during the Second World War which was published in 2002. His second book The Leader is published in Spring 2004.

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