Author: SKIRTH, RONALD
Title: The Reluctant Tommy an Extraordinary Memoir of the First World War
Description: London: MacMillan, 2010. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 023074673X. DJ and boards show light shelf wear, with small corner bump on top front board, 1" closed tear bottom edge back of DJ. ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. B&W illustrations; 8.5 X 5.6 X 1.5 inches; 354 pages; "In the First World War, Ronald Skirth was an ordinary tommy. His experiences were like those of many others, save in one thing. When Skirth went out into No Man's Land after Passchendaele and saw the dead body of a teenaged German soldier, he resolved that he would never again help to take a human life. Making use of Ronald Skirth's letters and postcards to his sweetheart, Ella, his contemporary journals and the memoir he wrote in his retirement fifty years later, The Reluctant Tommy is the fascinating story of a man who stuck by his principles in impossible circumstances. With a foreword from Jon Snow, it is an new classic of the war memoir genre; the tale of an ordinary soldier with a truly remarkable story. ". Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .
Keywords: 023074673X WWI Tommy Great Britain Militaria
See more books from our catalog: Militaria::Great Britain::WWI
Title: The Reluctant Tommy an Extraordinary Memoir of the First World War
Description: London: MacMillan, 2010. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 023074673X. DJ and boards show light shelf wear, with small corner bump on top front board, 1" closed tear bottom edge back of DJ. ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. B&W illustrations; 8.5 X 5.6 X 1.5 inches; 354 pages; "In the First World War, Ronald Skirth was an ordinary tommy. His experiences were like those of many others, save in one thing. When Skirth went out into No Man's Land after Passchendaele and saw the dead body of a teenaged German soldier, he resolved that he would never again help to take a human life. Making use of Ronald Skirth's letters and postcards to his sweetheart, Ella, his contemporary journals and the memoir he wrote in his retirement fifty years later, The Reluctant Tommy is the fascinating story of a man who stuck by his principles in impossible circumstances. With a foreword from Jon Snow, it is an new classic of the war memoir genre; the tale of an ordinary soldier with a truly remarkable story. ". Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .
Keywords: 023074673X WWI Tommy Great Britain Militaria
Price: US$ 17.50 Seller: Ainsworth Books
- Book number: 20420
- Book number: 20420
See more books from our catalog: Militaria::Great Britain::WWI