The reluctant tommy
By: Ronald Skirth ; edited by Duncan Barrett
Contributors: Barrett, Duncan
Publisher: Charnwood
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Leicester
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781444807844
Subjects: World War (1914-1918) fast (OCoLC)fst01180746; World War, 1914-1918; British Personal narratives; Campaigns; Great Britain; Great Britain. Army. Royal Regiment of Artillery; Large type books; Military campaigns
Description: In the First World War, Ronald Skirth was an ordinary tommy. His experiences were like those of many others, fighting in the trenches under constant bombardment, suffering under a cowardly commanding officer, enduring shell shock and finally, somehow surviving. But Skirth's story is more extraordinary than that. For on the Flanders battlefield he had a moment of epiphany when he came across the dead body of a teenaged German soldier. The boy was just like him. His corpse was bizarrely untouched, and in his hand was a photo of his girlfriend, who looked just like Skirth's own sweetheart, Ella.
Notes: Originally published: London: Macmillan, 2010.