Britain's Last Tommies
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Britain's Last Tommies by Richard Van Emden
On the centenary of the Great War, there are now no longer any veterans alive of the six million men who served on the Western Front. Although this means that the Great War as a living history is to all intents and purposes over, the twenty years Richard van Emden spent interviewing and carefully recording the memories of over 270 veterans, makes this extraordinary collection of stories even more poignant. As well as stories told by the veterans themselves, Richard has also included his own memories of these remarkable men: the remarkable, the sad, the funny, the moving. The book also features an outstanding collection of photographs taken of the veterans as soldiers during the war, together with recent images of almost all of them, taken at home, back on the Western Front or at the final veterans' reunion. Britain's Last Tommies is the author's personal tribute to a unique list of veterans, all of whom individually held the poignant title of being the last Gallipoli veteran, the last Royal Flying Corps veteran, the last Distinguished Conduct Medal holder, the last cavalryman and the last Prisoner of War.
Richard van Emden is widely regarded as one of Britain's foremost oral historians of the First World War. His works include the ground-breaking Boy Soldiers (to accompany Channel 4 documentary 'Britain's Boy Soldiers), Veterans: The Last Survivors of the Great War, Prisoners of the Kaiser, The Trench (accompanying the BBC2 series, All Quiet on the Home Front, Boy Soldiers, (to accompany Channel 4 documentary 'Britain's Boy Soldiers) and the best-selling Last Fighting Tommy: The Life of Harry Patch.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781473860896 |
| ISBN 10 | 147386089X |
| Title | Britain's Last Tommies |
| Author | Richard Van Emden |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pen & Sword Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2016-03-01 |
| Number of pages | 344 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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