English
2008
ISBN: 1405647329
MP3@128 kbps
7 hrs and 56 mins
Narrator: Bill Wallis
Harry Patch, the last British soldier alive to have fought in the trenches of the First World War, is one of the few people who can recall the horror of that conflict. He remembers being conscriped as a teenager, and serving as a machine gunner in the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. Fighting in the mud and trenches during the Battle of Passchendaele, he saw a great many of his comrades die, and the shell that wounded him, also killed his three closest friends.
He describes in vivid detail his daily life in the trenches, the terror of being under intense artillery fire, and of going over the top. The Second World War saw Harry in action on the home front, as a firefighter during the Bath Blitz. Late in life Harry achieved fame, meeting the Queen and taking part in the BBC documentary The Last Tommy, finally shaking hands with a German veteran of the artillery, and speaking out frankly to Prime Minister Tony Blair about the soldiers shot for cowardice in the First World War.
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