The World at War: The Landmark Oral History from the Previously Unpublished Archives
Richard Holmes / Aug 19, 2019
The World at War The Landmark Oral History from the Previously Unpublished Archives The World at War is the definitive television work on the Second World War It told the story of the war through the testimony of key participants from civilians to ordinary soldiers from statesmen to
The World at War is the definitive television work on the Second World War It told the story of the war through the testimony of key participants from civilians to ordinary soldiers, from statesmen to generals First broadcast in 1973, the result was a unique and irreplaceable record since many of the eyewitnesses captured on film did not have long to live The program sThe World at War is the definitive television work on the Second World War It told the story of the war through the testimony of key participants from civilians to ordinary soldiers, from statesmen to generals First broadcast in 1973, the result was a unique and irreplaceable record since many of the eyewitnesses captured on film did not have long to live The program s producers committed hundreds of interview hours to tape in its creation, but only a fraction of that recorded material made it to the final cut For than 30 years the interviews have never been allowed to be published until now The well known names interviewed for the series include Albert Speer, Karl Wolff Himmler s adjutant , Traudl Junge Hitler s secretary , James Stewart USAAF bomber pilot and Hollywood star , Anthony Eden, John Colville Parliamentary Private Secretary to Winston Churchill , Averell Harriman US Ambassador to Russia , and Arthur Bomber Harris Head of RAF Bomber Command Richard Holmes has skillfully woven this valuable original material into a compelling narrative, creating a truly phenomenal oral history of the Second World War.
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Richard Holmes
Librarian Note There is than one author in the GoodReads database with this name See this thread for information.Richard Holmes was Professor of Military and Security Studies at Cranfield University and the Royal Military College of Science He was educated at Cambridge, Northern Illinois, and Reading Universities, and carried out his doctoral research on the French army of the Second Empire For many years he taught military history at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst A celebrated military historian, Richard Holmes is the author of the best selling and widely acclaimed Tommy and Redcoat The British Soldier in the Age of Horse and Musket His dozen other books include Dusty Warriors, Sahib, The Western Front, The Little Field Marshal Sir John French, The Road to Sedan, Firing Line, The Second World War in Photographs and Fatal Avenue A Traveller s History of Northern France and Flanders also published by Pimlico.He was general editor of The Oxford Companion to Military History and has presented eight BBC TV series, including War Walks , The Western Front and Battlefields , and is famous for his hugely successful series Wellington The Iron Duke and Rebels and Redcoats.