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This moving and timely book explores the way the First World War has been thought about and commemorated and how it has affected its own and later generations. On 11 November 1920 huge crowds lined the streets of London for the funeral of the Unknown Warrior. As the coffin was drawn on a gun carriage from the Cenotaph to Westminster Abbey the King and Ministers of State followed silently behind. The modern world had tilted on its axis but it had been saved. Armistice Day was born the acknowledgement of the great sacrifice made by a whole generation of British men and women. Now almost a century later Harry Patch the last British veteran who saw active service has died. Our final link with the First World War is broken. Harry Patch was born in 1898 and was conscripted in 1916. He served with a Lewis gun team at the Battle of Passchendaele and in September 1917 was wounded by a shell that killed three of his comrades. After the war Patch returned to Somerset to work as a plumber a job he continued to do until his retirement. The First World War was fought not by a professional army but by ordinary civilians like Patch who epitomised Edwardian Britain and the sense now lost of what Britain stood for and why it was worth fighting for. 'The Last Veteran' tells Patch's story and explores the meaning of the war to those who fought in it and the generations that have followed. Peter Parker's illuminating and timely book is a moving tribute to a remarkable generation.About the AuthorPeter Parker was born in Herefordshire and educated in the Malverns Dorset and London. He is the author of The Old Lie: The Great War and the Public-School Ethos (1987) and biographies of J.R. Ackerley (1989) and Christopher Isherwood (2004). He edited The Reader's Companion to the Twentieth-Century Novel (1994) and The Reader's Companion to Twentieth-Century Writers (1995) and was an associate editor of The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004). He writes about books and gardening for a wide variety of newspapers and magazines and lives in London's East End.Date Published 28th October 2010

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