Voices from the Front: An Oral History of the Great War Local History The Harlem Hellfighters: When Pride

The Harlem Hellfighters: When Pride Met Courage is a portrait of bravery and honor

and a broken heart

He claimed a special place in the hearts of his countrymen

the devastated Elinor refuses to accept it

whole populations lost their national identities as political systems

Voices from the Front: An Oral History of the Great War Local History The Harlem Hellfighters: When PrideDescription by Peter Hart Hardcover In the 1980s and early 1990s, Peter Hart, then a young oral historian at the Imperial War Museum in London, conducted 183 interviews with British World War I veterans. After the death of the last veteran in 2009, these interviews have become a rare and invaluable record of the Great War, as remembered by the men who experienced it. The men spoke to Hart of the familiar horrors of the war poison gas, lice, muddy