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Harry Patch, born June 17, 1898, was the last British soldier alive to have fought in the trenches of the First World War. From his vivid memories of an Edwardian childhood, the horror of the Great War and fighting in the mud during the Battle of Passchendaele, working on the home front in the Second World War, and fame in later life as a veteran, The Last Fighting Tommy is the story of an ordinary man's extraordinary life.
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About the Author
Richard van Emden has interviewed over 270 veterans of the Great War and has written widely on the 1914-18 conflict. His previous books include Britain's Last Tommies, Boy Soldiers of the Great War, and the best-selling The Trench. He has visited the Somme and Ypres every year since 1985 and has an expert knowledge of the First World War battlefields. He lives in London.
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Patch was not unique among millions of his comrades who endured that prolonged and supreme test of nerve and courage. But, uniquely, as the last survivor, he embodies them all * Sunday Express * This articulate, modest and outspoken man is an unassailable witness of what the war was like for those who fought in it * Daily Telegraph * A wonderful book -- Andrew Motion, Poet Laureate
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- PublisherBloomsbury USA
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 1608192253
- ISBN 13 9781608192250
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages256
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