Last Witnesses

  • Last Witnesses: The Muggletonian History, 1652–1979
    Last Witnesses: The Muggletonian History, 1652–1979
    By William Lamont

    H. McLauchlan, 'Alexander Gordon (1841–1931), Biographer and Historian', in Essays andAddresses (Manchester, 1951), pp. ... Ibid., p. 47. ACTS, pp. 63–6. Cf. STL, p. 47 with ACTS, pp. 65–6. ORSE/7/MS/01. (BL) Add MS 60253, fol. 132v.

  • Last Witnesses: Reflections on the Wartime Internment of Japanese Americans
    Last Witnesses: Reflections on the Wartime Internment of Japanese Americans
    By Erica Harth

    This is a rich collection of personal histories from a wide variety of cultural backgrounds which takes readers inside the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II.

  • Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II
    Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II
    By Svetlana Alexievich

    “A masterpiece” (The Guardian) from the Nobel Prize–winning writer, an oral history of children’s experiences in World War II across Russia NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST For more than three decades, ...

  • Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II
    Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II
    By Svetlana Alexievich

    An Extra Half-Spoon of Sugar” “Dear House, Don't Burn Dear House, Don't Burn!...” “She Came in a White Smock, Like Mama...” “Auntie, Take Me on Your Knees...” “...And Began to Rock Her Like a Doll” “They Had Already Bought Me a Primer.

  • Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II
    Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II
    By Svetlana Alexievich

    This is "Svetlana Alexievich's collection of the memories of those who were children during World War II. These men and women were both witnesses and sometimes soldiers as well, and their generation grew up with the trauma of the war deeply ...

  • Last Witnesses: Unchildlike Stories
    Last Witnesses: Unchildlike Stories
    By Svetlana Alexievich

    In the late 1970s, Svetlana Alexievich started interviewing people who had experienced war as children, the generation that survived and had to live with the trauma that would forever change the course of the Russian nation.