We Will Remember Them, Max Arthur
We Will Remember Them, Max Arthur
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We Will Remember Them
Voices from the Aftermath of the Great War

Author: Max Arthur

Narrator: Clive Mantle, Patience Tomlinson

Abridged: 4 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/22/2009


Synopsis

11am, 11.11.1918: the war is finally over.

After four long years Britain welcomed her heroes home. Wives and mothers were reunited with loved ones they'd feared they'd never see again. Fathers met sons and daughters born during the war years for the very first time. It was a time of great joy - but it was also a time of enormous change.

The soldiers and nurses who survived life at the Front faced the reality of rebuilding their lives in a society that had changed beyond recognition. How did the veterans readjust to civilian life? How did they cope with their war wounds, work and memories of lost comrades? And what of the people they returned to - the independent young women who were asked to give up the work they had been enjoying, the wives who had to readjust to life with men who seemed like strangers?

Read by Clive Mantle and Patience Tomlinson

(p) 2009 Orion Publishing Group

About Max Arthur

Max Arthur is a skilled interviewer who has written oral histories of the RAF and Royal Navy during the Second World War

About Clive Mantle

Clive Mantle has had TV roles in DOCTORS, CASUALTY, HOLBY CITY, THE VICAR OF DIBLEY and AFTER THOMAS. On stage he has appeared in OF MICE AND MEN, THE PLAY WHAT I WROTE, A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE and KILLING CASTRO. He has also read The Last Post, by Max Arthur, for Orion.

About Patience Tomlinson

Patience trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and has since appeared in many roles in theatres across the country. She has made countless BBC radio broadcasts of plays, poetry and short stories, as well as regular audio books and television work such as The Day Today, Friday Night Armistice and In The Red.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Ron on January 08, 2017

I have read extensively about World War 1. In my youth there was an elderly gentleman who lived across the road from my childhood home. He had been a soldier in the British army during World War 1. He had no children and after his wife died he would raise the blind on his front bedroom window to let......more

Goodreads review by Venky on November 04, 2019

A poignant account of the perils and horrors of World War-I as recounted by the participants themselves in th theatre of death, despondency and despair. Amidst the carnage are unearthed stories of brotherhood and bonding, failure and fortitude, and more than anything else the sheer will power to kee......more

Goodreads review by Amy on November 02, 2012

Wonderful oral history of the aftermath of the First World War.......more