Last Fighting Tommy
English Text.
London, 1996; paperback, cm 13x20.
ISBN: 0-7475-9336-1
- EAN13: 9780747593362
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Weight: 0.2 kg
The vivid and moving story of a man whose life has spanned 6 monarchs and 20 prime ministers. Harry Patch is 109 years old, and the last British soldier alive to have fought in the trenches of the First World War. From his vivid memories of an Edwardian childhood, to the horror of the Great War to working on the home front in the WWII, this is the story of an ordinary man's extraordinary life. Harry was the pre-eminent interviewee in BBC1's 2 part tribute to the veterans of the Great War, }Tommies{, in 2005, and this sold over 30,000 copies in hardback. 'An extraordinary biography' }Daily Mail{