''politicians who took us to war should have been given guns and told to settle their differences themselves, instead of organising nothing better than legalised mass murder." Introduction Sadly, Harry Patch passed away in July 2009. This book is his account of his life. His boyhood pranks, the horrors of the First World War and his later years. An insight from the last Tommy to serve in the trenches. Harry spent only a few months in the trenches, much less than most. Possibly the most remarkable thing is that Harry never spoke about his exploits in the war until he was 100 years old, this ...
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