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Acclaimed author Max Arthur specialises in first-hand recollections of historical events. Previous titles include The Manchester United Air Crash; Above All Courage; Northern Ireland- Soldiers Talking; Men of the Red Beret; There Shall Be Wings- The RAF 1918 to the Present; The True Glory- The Royal Navy 1914 to Present.
These stories are so harrowing, their witness so precise and devastating * The Times * With the rawness and immediacy that only this kind of oral history can provide * Sunday Times * An extraordinary and immensely moving book -- Stephen Fry A unique collection of personal testimonies ... a timely reminder of the sacrifices and horrors of war * Sunday Express * The sound of real human voices: bewildered, sad, often angry, sometimes bitter, but for the most part remarkable ... a shattered relay-race of narrative gives the book a ghostly, choric poetry * Telegraph * ...Breathe a sense of immediacy, of being there on the spot; and the spot is, only too often, a place of horror...thoroughly readable by anyone who wants to know what it felt like to be engaged in a world war....That war is horrible, no sensible reader can doubt; that this war was worth fighting, to get rid of barbaric regimes, comes across well * Spectator *
