Download or read book The Last Fighting Tommy written by Richard van Emden and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-06-05 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harry Patch, born June 17, 1898, was the last British soldier alive to have fought in the trenches of the First World War. From his vivid memories of an Edwardian childhood, the horror of the Great War and fighting in the mud during the Battle of Passchendaele, 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.