Anthony Richards
Anthony Richards is the head of Documents and Sound at IWM. Since 1995, he has worked on the diaries, letters and memoirs in the museum’s care and is responsible for its extensive collection of personal testimony in both written and audio form. He has contributed to many publishing projects and is author of The Somme: A Visual History.
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Words of War
During the Second World War, across the frontline as well as on the Home Front, millions of people recorded their thoughts of their experiences -…
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The Somme
Between 1 July and 18 November 1916 Britain's new volunteer army took the leading role in a battle on the Western Front for the first…
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D-Day & Normandy
In the hours before dawn on June 6, 1944, an unprecedented assemblage of men, weapons, and machines swung into action. The long-awaited, highly secret D-Day…
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Guests of the Third Reich
More than 170,000 British prisoners of war (POWs) were taken by German and Italian forces during the Second World War. Conditions were tough. Rations were…