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The last fighting Tommy : the life of Harry Patch, the oldest surviving veteran of the trenches

Familiar to the public from such commemorative documentaries as BBC's "Tommies" (2005), Harry Patch is the last surviving British Great War veteran. Written with the assistance of respected First World War author and interviewer Richard van Emden, this book presents a personal account of a futile and horrific war that few can remember.

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  • "Familiar to the public from such commemorative documentaries as BBC's "Tommies" (2005), Harry Patch is the last surviving British Great War veteran. Written with the assistance of respected First World War author and interviewer Richard van Emden, this book presents a personal account of a futile and horrific war that few can remember."@en
  • "Harry Patch, the last surviving British soldier to have fought in the trenches of the First World War, recalls the horror of that conflict. He vividly remembers his childhood in the Somerset countryside. He left school at fourteen to become an apprentice plumber but three years later was conscripted, serving as a machine gunner in the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. The Second World War again saw Harry in action on the home front. Late in life Harry achieved fame, meeting the Queen and taking part in the BBC documentary 'The last Tommy', finally shaking hands with a German veteran of the artillery, and speaking out frankly to Prime Minister Tony Blair about the soldiers shot for cowardice in the First World War."
  • "Harry Patch, the last British soldier alive to have fought in the trenches of the First World War, is one of very few people who can directly recall the horror of that conflict.Harry vividly remembers his childhood in the Somerset countryside of Edwardian England. He left school in 1913 to become an apprentice plumber but three years later was conscripted, serving as a machine gunner in the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. Fighting in the mud and trenches during the Battle of Passchendaele, he saw a great many of his comrades die, and in one dreadful moment the shell that wounded him kill his three closest friends. In vivid detail he describes daily life in the trenches, the terror of being under intense artillery fire, and the fear of going over the top. Then, after the Armistice, the soldiers' frustration at not being quickly demobbed led to a mutiny in which Harry was soon caught up.The Second World War saw Harry in action on the home front as a fire-fighter during the..."
  • "The oldest man in Europe is also the last surviving British soldier to have fought in the trenches of the First World War and this book details his life experiences."
  • "'The Last Fighting Tommy' tells the extraordinary and moving story of a man whose life has spanned 6 monarchs and 20 Prime Ministers."@en

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  • "The last fighting Tommy : the life of Harry Patch, the oldest surviving veteran of the trenches, 1898-2009"

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