Forgotten Voices of the Great War

Forgotten Voices of the Great War: Told by those who were there is a collection of interviews with people who lived through the World War I, written by Max Arthur.
In 1960, the Imperial War Museum with a team of academics, archivists and volunteers set about tracing World War I veterans and interviewing them at length in order to record the experiences of ordinary individuals in war. The Museum oral archive has become an important archive of its kind in the world, with thousands of hours of footage. Authors have occasionally been granted access to the vaults.
Circa 2000, the Museum allowed the author and a team of researchers access to the complete audio tapes. Arthur in the writings put the interviews into chronological and campaign order, and provided some context about the events that surround the memories.
The book includes testimonies from
Tom Adlam,
Horace Birks,
Edmund Blunden,
Godfrey Buxton,
Charles Carrington,
Montagu Cleeve,
Norman Demuth,
Mabel Lethbridge,
Reginald Leonard Haine,
Cecil Arthur Lewis,
Philip Neame,
Keith Officer,
Harry Patch,
Edward Spears,
Henry Williamson, and
Douglas Wimberley.
The book has subsequently been dramatised for the stage as Forgotten voices by the playwright Malcolm McKay by 2006.