Albert John 'Jack' Martin was a 32-year-old clerk at the Admiralty when he was called up to serve in the army in September 1916. These diaries, written in secret, hidden from his colleagues and only discovered by his family after his return home, present the Great War with heartbreaking clarity.
Albert John 'Jack' Martin was a 32-year-old clerk at the Admiralty when he was called up to serve in the army in September 1916. These diaries, writte...
A rich treasure chest of journals, letters and stories about the men and their animals on the Western Front, by the bestselling author of 'The Last Fighting Tommy' and 'The Soldier's War'.
A rich treasure chest of journals, letters and stories about the men and their animals on the Western Front, by the bestselling author of 'The Last Fi...
‘An extraordinary biography by the very last witness of a devastating four years in British history’ Daily Mail On 17 June 2009, Harry Patch celebrated his 111th birthday. At the time, he was the last living British Tommy who had fought in the trenches during the First World War. Now that direct link with the past has gone. From Patch’s vivid memories of an Edwardian childhood, through the horrors of the battles of Ypres and 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...
‘An extraordinary biography by the very last witness of a devastating four years in British history’ Daily Mail On 17 June 2009, Harry Patch cele...
