Forgotten Voices (Oberon Modern Plays)

by Malcolm McKay (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2007

  $4.02

  The astonishing adaptation, by Malcolm McKay, of Max Arthur's bestselling and acclaimed book, Forgotten Voices , is based on the spoken testimony of veterans of the First World War, collected by the Sound Archive of the Imperial War Museum in 1970. Five ordinary survivors - four men and one woman - movingly reveal their memories, which make up a complete narrative of an awesome war. 'Very few men are still alive who fought in the trenches in the First World War. The words of the soldiers, however, are as fresh as if they were written yesterday. Extraordinary.' - The Mail on Sunday . Forgotten Voices will run at the Assembly Theatre, Edinburgh throughout August, before transferring to the Riverside, London.

• Used

  Hardcover
  2002

  $3.24

  In 1960, the Imperial War Museum began a momentous and important task. A team of academics, archivists and volunteers set about tracing WW1 veterans and interviewing them at lenght in order to record the experiences of ordinary individuals in war. Now, forty years on, the resulting book is an important, unique and compelling story of WW1.