The Last Fighting Tommy - Harry Patch, Richard Van Emden

The moving story of a man whose life spanned six monarchs and twenty-one prime ministers

When Harry Patch celebrated his 111th birthday on 17 June 2009 he was the last British Tommy left alive to have fought in the trenches of the First World War. Now that direct link with the past has gone. From his vivid memories of an Edwardian childhood, the horror of the Great War and fighting in the mud during the Battle of Passchendaele 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.