The Last Fighting Tommy: The Life of Harry Patch, Last Veteran of the Trenches, 1898-2009A&C Black, 2 giu 2008 - 256 pagine 'The Last Fighting Tommy' tells the extraordinary and moving story of a man whose life has spanned six monarchs and 20 Prime Ministers. Harry Patch, 110 years old, is the last British soldier alive to have fought in the trenches of the First World War. From his vivd menories of an Edwardian childhood, the horror of the Great War and fighting in the mud of the Battle of Passchendale to 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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Victorian Born | 15 |
Edwardian Raised | 41 |
Joining | 55 |
In the Trenches | 68 |
Passchendaele 1917 | 85 |
Wounded | 108 |
Mutiny | 127 |
Back to Work | 137 |
World War II | 162 |
Growing Older | 188 |
Life Begins at 100 | 199 |
Harry His Family and Friends | 208 |
Funeral Address by Jim Ross | 226 |
Picture Credits | 232 |
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