These eye-witness accounts just pip Studs Turkel's similar The Good War at the post, with first hand testimony by everyone from Lord Mountbatten to Hitler's secretary Traudl Junge, and the poor chaps on the ground who had to do the actual fighting.
Ladies, I'm giving you first hand testimony.
His first hand testimony was only one among many at the hearings into how Canadian mining companies across Latin America — from Honduras Siria Valleyy to southeastern Guatemala to Chiapas, Mexico — with the support of local authorities and the Canadian government, have been committing environmental and human rights abuses in the pursuit of gold.
His first hand testimony was only one among many at the hearings into how Canadian mining companies across Latin America from Honduras' Siria Valley to southeastern Guatemala to Chiapas, Mexico with the support of local authorities and the Canadian government, have been committing environmental and human rights abuses in the pursuit of gold.
But even a collection of first-hand testimonies doesn't provide the full historical picture.
He was never just that and the first-hand testimonies of those who knew him best reveal a much more complicated, and contradictory, man.
Hodges's story, in its mix of the otherworldly and the all-too-human, is central to the narrative flow of Find a Fallen Star, which combines Petersen's own images with archive press cuttings, found photos and first-hand testimonies.
These twenty-nine first-hand testimakees make up a kind of collective memoir of life in the Warsaw ghetto, from its establishment, in November, 1940, through (and even beyond) its destruction, in 1943.
The show's access to heavyweight contributors is undimmed (first-hand testimonies from Tom Hanks and Matt Damon are a blithe garnish to the main subject) and Bragg's gravitas only deepens with the acoustic of experience.
Although first-hand testimonies suggest there was no single organised football match between German and British sides, small-scale kick-abouts were held between soldiers.
