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Peter Hart

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Peter Hart is a British military historian.

He has been an oral historian at Sound Archive of Imperial War Museum in London since 1981.

He has written mainly on British participation in the First World War. His books include; The Somme, Jutland 1916, Bloody April on the air war in 1917, Passchendaele, Aces Falling (on the air war in 1918), 1918 A Very British Victory and Gallipoli.

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Peter Hart A great deal of attention is paid to the opening moves made in wars. This is particularly evident with the Great War. Much of the media interest durin…m´Ç°ù±ðA great deal of attention is paid to the opening moves made in wars. This is particularly evident with the Great War. Much of the media interest during the recent centenary celebrations was taken up with an exhaustive coverage of the 1914 campaigns, with British attention focused almost entirely on the Battle of Mons. The treatment of the rest of the war has concentrated on the Allied defeat at Gallipoli, or the long drawn out tragedies of the Somme, Verdun and Passchendaele battles. There is also an obsession with the brilliance displayed by Germans in their tactical conduct of the Spring 1918 offensives. The result of such fixations is that the ultimate Allied victory a few months later must come as a real surprise as â€� ‘suddenlyâ€� â€� the war is all over in November 1918. I wanted to explain what happened in the last few months of the war. From where exactly did the Allied victory emerge? Was the German Army really beaten? What haven’t we been told in many of the conventional accounts of the war? (less)
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Great Gallipoli book!

Gallipoli: The Dardanelles Disaster in Soldiers' Words and Photographs
Richard van Emden & Stephen Chambers
£25 pp. 344
Bloomsbury, 2015
This is a beautifully written and illustrated look at the campaign, adorned with quotes from some marvellous personal experience accounts. Quite a few are well-known, almost like 'old friends', but simply too powerful to be omitted; others seem vibrantly fresh. Most Read more of this blog post »
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“It’s not just tougher out there. It’s become a situation where the contest is how much you can destroy the system, rather than how much you can make it work. It makes no difference if you have a ‘Dâ€� or an ‘Râ€� after your name. There’s no sense that this is about democracy, and after the election you have to work together, and knit the country together. The people in the game now just think to the first Tuesday in November, and not a day beyond it.”
Peter Hart

“Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.â€�1 Chancellor Otto von Bismarck”
Peter Hart, The Great War: 1914-1918

“This is what is called dying for your country, but it is actually selling your soul to a few profiteers for a shilling, and being massacred to satisfy their selfish purposes. And they call it WAR--and a legitimate thing at that.

-Private Arthur Wrench, Headquarters, 154th Brigade, 51st Division”
Peter Hart, The Somme
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