The Last Fighting Tommy by Richard Van Emden
An extraordinary biography by the very last witness of a devastating four years in British history Daily Mail
Patch was not unique among millions of his comrades who endured that prolonged and supreme test of nerve and courageBut, 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
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
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 died in 2009, at the age of 111.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781408897225 |
| ISBN 10 | 1408897229 |
| Title | The Last Fighting Tommy |
| Author | Richard Van Emden |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2018-02-08 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
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