I dearly love this series.
Not only do I learn a lot about the GPW, but I've also learned a lot about the realities, attitudes and experiences of people living in the prewar.
Does anyone know of equivalent one's for the west? There are a few biographies/auto-biographies and a few detail "journalist" after-action-reports - but I haven't seen anything with such standardisation or detail.
Compared to reports from the war or from autobiographies, cross-generation interviews tend to do a much better job of capturing elements of history that are simply assumed as self-explanatory by the older people but which youngsters are ignorant of.
Anyway, it is a great service.
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