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Britain's Last Tommies

Final Memories from Soldiers of the 1914–18 War in Their Own Words

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Britain's Last Tommies

By: Richard van Emden
Narrated by: Bruce Cullen
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On the centenary of the Great War, there are now no longer any veterans alive of the six million men who served on the Western Front. Although this means that the Great War as a living history is to all intents and purposes over, the twenty years Richard van Emden spent interviewing and carefully recording the memories of over 270 veterans, makes this extraordinary collection of stories even more poignant.

As well as stories told by the veterans themselves, Richard has also included his own memories of these remarkable men: the remarkable, the sad, the funny, the moving. The book also features an outstanding collection of photographs taken of the veterans as soldiers during the war, together with recent images of almost all of them, taken at home, back on the Western Front or at the final veterans' reunion.

Britain's Last Tommies is the author's personal tribute to a unique list of veterans, all of whom individually held the poignant title of being the last Gallipoli veteran, the last Royal Flying Corps veteran, the last Distinguished Conduct Medal holder, the last cavalryman and the last Prisoner of War.

©2022 Richard van Emden (P)2022 Pen and Sword Military Military & War World War I War Veteran Funny

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You do not appreciate these events until you read about the experiences of the people who were there. May they rest in peace and their sacrifice never be forgotten

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Very enjoyable initially. However, in the end I was unable to continue listening consequent on becoming so irritated by the narrator presumably having been instructed to Americanise the pronunciation of numbers and dates e.g. an example being an apparently direct quote of an English soldier describing “on the afternoon of nine August”; if this is supposed to be a direct speech quote an English person would NOT use that syntax. It utterly ruined my immersion in the book as this Americanisation sounded so alien when forced into the speech of British soldiers. Infuriating forelock tugging by Audible to the American market.

Excellent….aside from Americanisation of direct quotes

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