''Forgotten Voices of the Second World War'' is a book written by Max Arthur that consists of interviews with soldiers, sailors, airmen and civilians of most nationalities who saw action during

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

. The interviews were drawn from the

Imperial War Museum Imperial War Museums (IWM) is a British national museum organisation with branches at five locations in England, three of which are in London. Founded as the Imperial War Museum in 1917, the museum was intended to record the civil and military ...

's sound archive. Many of the recordings had not been heard since the 1970s. As well as putting the interviews into chronological and campaign order, the book also puts the surrounding events into context.

External links

Forgotten Voices website

Imperial War Museum website
2005 non-fiction books World War II memoirs Oral history books Collection of the Imperial War Museum Books of interviews British non-fiction books Ebury Publishing books {{WWII-memoir-stub