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Hundreds of previously unpublished accounts make this a major new soldier's eye history of the Somme Peter Hart, the Imperial War Museum's oral historian, has a growing following 'His use of this material is vivid and varied, never less than compelling, and it amounts to the most comprehensive and insightful account of the vast tragedy of the Somme that I have read' Spectator 'Hart is oral historian at the Imperial War Museum and so, while he provides a masterful analysis of the engagement in more conventional military and historical terms, he brings the human experience of the combatants well to the fore. A monumental feat of research' Scotsman '[Hart] has produced a remarkably even-handed account...and the first-person accounts he has unearthed are rich in vivid images' Sunday Times

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Peter Hart was born in 1955. He went to Liverpool University before joining the Sound Archive at the Imperial War Museum in 1981. He is now Oral Historian at the Archive.

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