Archives of Memory A Soldier Recalls World War II

Alice Hoffman, a historian, initiated the study because she recognized the critical role of memory in gathering oral history; Howard Hoffman, the subject, is an experimental psychologist. Alice's tape recorded interviews with her husband over a period of ten years are the basic material of the study, which compares the events as recounted in the first phase of the interviews with later accounts of the same experiences and with the written records of his company as well as the memories of fellow soldiers and the evidence of photographs and other documents. This engrossing story of World War II breaks new ground for practitioners of oral history.Hoffman, Alice M. is the author of 'Archives of Memory A Soldier Recalls World War II' with ISBN 9780813117188 and ISBN 0813117186.