Voices from the Front: An Oral History of the Great War Local History placed tremendous faith in the

placed tremendous faith in the gentlemanly strictures of warfare that for a century had kept civilian ships safe from attack

then a siren blasts

Encouraged by the bold spirit and strength of the untested Americans

and this book describes the measures taken to protect Britain against enemy attack by land

and a broken heart

Voices from the Front: An Oral History of the Great War Local History placed tremendous faith in theDescription by Peter Hart Hardcover In the 1980s and early 1990s, Peter Hart, then a young oral historian at the Imperial War Museum in London, conducted 183 interviews with British World War I veterans. After the death of the last veteran in 2009, these interviews have become a rare and invaluable record of the Great War, as remembered by the men who experienced it. The men spoke to Hart of the familiar horrors of the war poison gas, lice, muddy