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The Last Fighting Tommy: The Life of Harry Patch, the Only Surviving Veteran of the Trenches | 
 enlarge | Authors: Harry Patch, Richard Van Emden
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Category: Book
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Rating:  21 reviews
Sales Rank: 483
Media: Paperback
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.1 x 0.8
ISBN: 0747593361
EAN: 9780747593362
ASIN: 0747593361
Publication Date: June 2, 2008
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 Disappointing December 3, 2008
Derek Massey (United Kingdom)
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
Disappointing. Patch's own words are fine, especially for a man of his age, but the ghost-writer (Richard van Emden) is too intrusive and spoils the flow of the narrative.
 The Last fighting Tommy, The life of Harry Patch November 18, 2008
Mrs. S. T. Hayward (uk)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Amazing this all I can say, Im not a fan of War books, but this is truly brilliant, Richard VAN Emden has put this together amazingly, Im going to read a few more of his books. READ IT
A century of experiences November 12, 2008
John Hopper (London, UK)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I saved this for now as it is the 90th anniversary of the end of WWI. It is amazing how clear Harry's memories are and in what fine fettle he is considering his great age. The most remarkable thing about him is that he was an unremarkable man in remarkable, indeed shattering and horrific, times. Worth reading for a century and more of an ordinary man's life and memories.
A hero tells his story and let us never forget. October 6, 2008
Peter A. Colwill (England)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
I have just read Henry Allingham's book which led me to reread Jimmy Corbin's ,(please read my reviews on these books), and now I have just finished rereading Harry's book.
It is very interesting to hear how their lives panned out and when you consider how differently these three mens lives are it beggars belief to even contemplate the lives of every other fighter from ww1 and 2. One thing I know is that every last one of them would have a story worth reading though.
I would distrust anyone who considers this book to be worthy of less than 5 stars as this man like so many others did his duty so we were able to keep our freedom. These boys were fighting for more than their own lives as some reviewers seem to forget.
sour grapes are best left with footballers wives and the likes.
A Patchwork Quilt named Peace October 4, 2008
Christian Spriet (Bruges, Belgium)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
No more than a week or so ago the nearby village of Langemarck-Poelkapelle hailed our long-term and cherished visitor Harry Patch. Patch, who has recently turned an unheard of 110 (!) and boasts an equally impressive score of visits to our Salient, had been a simple plumber before he came over to fight, which turned him into a hero just by surviving and then waiting (and testifying).
At Langemarck, where thousands of German young students were laid to rest, Harry pointed out the very spot where in 1917 he and his fellow-soldiers crossed the Steenbeek (een beek is a brook; Steenbeek could be Stone brook) and insisted on a simple memorial stone to be erected there in an act of commemoration of all his fellow-soldiers, whether or not they made it, even whether or not they hade been on his own or on the other side.
Mr Patch is cherished especially as he is one of the very last three (3!) Tommies to have survived the war and, like Harry, are well in their 100s themselves now.
Around the same time as Harry's visit, which - as the media said - might well be his last, a Belgian soldier and inhabitant of Langemarck-Poelkapelle (35) met his death while attempting to `put away with a shell' while in the course of a peaceful UN mission in the Lebanon.
Perhaps the long and the short of it is that what one tries to do here in our region is to enhance and foster the awareness that no, this war is anything but over; what the concept of the prospective Peace Park Flanders comes up to is to continue to draw that thin line of life that stretches from here to way back there. Pretty much as Harry Patch does, if one comes to think of it.
It is as thin as the line between love and hate. And thin as the line between reminiscence and forgetfulness.
As our unholy holy region of Ypres was and is burdened with history, let us continue to preserve the memory of all those nameless shameless names. `Lest I my panged grave must share with you. / Else dead. Else cold.', as the passionate soldier-poet Ivor Gurney said it. Remembering is conservative.
It sets out to preserve the past and keep it unscathed, for the benefit of ourselves and our future.
What a character you are, Harry! Thank you, for just being yourself.
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