An edition of The Last Fighting Tommy (2007)

The last fighting Tommy

the life of Harry Patch, the oldest surviving veteran of the trenches

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An edition of The Last Fighting Tommy (2007)

The last fighting Tommy

the life of Harry Patch, the oldest surviving veteran of the trenches

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The extraordinary and moving story of a man whose life spanned 6 monarchs and 20 Prime Ministers. Harry Patch was the last surviving British soldier to have fought in the trenches of the First World War, one of very few people who could directly recall the horror of that conflict. In his autobiography, Harry vividly remembers his childhood in the Somerset countryside of Edwardian England. 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. 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 killed his three closest friends. In vivid detail he describes daily life in the trenches, the terror of being under intense artillery fire, and 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. Warmly describing his friendships with American GIs preparing to go to France, he tells too of his tears, years later, when he visited their graves. 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. The Last Fighting Tommy is the story of an ordinary man's extraordinary life

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Publisher
Bloomsbury
Language
English
Pages
238

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Last Fighting Tommy: The Life of Harry Patch, Last Veteran of the Trenches, 1898-2009
2018, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
in English
Cover of: Last Fighting Tommy
Last Fighting Tommy: The Life of Harry Patch, Last Veteran of the Trenches, 1898-2009
2018, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
in English
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The Last Fighting Tommy
2010, Bloomsbury Publishing
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The Last Fighting Tommy
August 6, 2007, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Edition Notes

Includes index.

Published in
London
Genre
Personal narratives, British., Biography.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
940.48141
Library of Congress
D547.C67 P38 2007, D547.C67P38 2007

The Physical Object

Pagination
238 p., [16] p. of plates :
Number of pages
238

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL18263660M
ISBN 10
0747591156, 0747594015
ISBN 13
9780747591153, 9780747594017
LCCN
2007531254
Library Thing
3848256
Goodreads
1818746
2994040

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July 17, 2023 Edited by ImportBot import existing book
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October 15, 2008 Created by ImportBot Imported from Library of Congress MARC record