Forgotten Voices

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'Forgotten Voices is a series of audio tapes and books put together by the Imperial War Museum. The sound archive features thousands of interviews with people who survived wars in which the British were involved in the 20th Century. Each book has been compiled by an individual editor, though with the exception of the introduction to each chapter, almost the entirety of each book is made up of the archive extracts.

The series comprises:


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