Kitchener's Last Volunteer: The Life of Henry Allingham, the Oldest Surviving Veteran of the Great War
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781845964832 (1845964837)
Publish date: August 1st 2009
Publisher: Mainstream Publishing
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
A very poignant story of a man - Henry Allingham (1896-2009) - who had been the oldest British veteran of the First World War, seeing action with the Royal Naval Air Service and its successor, the Royal Air Force.
This is a wonderful short biography of Henry Allingham, the oldest Englishman to have ever lived and one of the last remaining veterans of the first world war. I learned of Mr. Allingham from his obituary in the New York Times; somewhere else, upon his death, his autobiography, written with Dennis G...
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