The Last Fighting Tommy: The Life of Harry Patch, Last Veteran of the Trenches, 1898-2009
Harry Patch, born June 17, 1898, was 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...
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Harry Patch, born June 17, 1898, was 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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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781608192250 (1608192253)
Publish date: April 27th 2010
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
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