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 Last Fighting Tommy, The: The Life of Harry Patch, the Only Surviving Veteran of the Trenches by Patch, Harry |
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Brief Description Tells the story of a man whose life has spanned six monarchs and twenty prime ministers. |
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Author Information Harry Patch served as a private in the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry at the Battle of Passchendaele in 1917. He was married in 1919 and had two sons. Between the wars he worked as a plumber and on building sites in the Bristol area, and when the Second World War broke out, he served first as a fire fighter with the Auxiliary Fire Service throughout the Bath Blitz, and later alongside American troops in the run-up to D-Day. In 2002 he attended the seventy-fifth anniversary of the inauguration of the Menin Gate at Ypres, and in 2005 he took part in the BBC TV documentary The Last Tommy and was awarded an honorary degree by the University of Bristol. He lives in Somerset.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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Author Profile Richard van Emden has interviewed over 270 veterans of the Great War and has written widely on the 1914-1918 conflict. His previous books include Britain's Last Tommies, Britain's Boy Soldiers, All Quiet on the Home Front, Prisoners of the Kaiser, and the top five bestselling The Trench. He has visited the Somme and Ypres every year since 1985 and has an expert knowledge of the First World War battlefields. |
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Synopsis Harry Patch is 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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