LAST POST: THE FINAL WORD FROM OUR FIRST WORLD WAR SOLDIERS

Author: Max Arthur

Publisher: Cassell

Year published: 2006

Pagination: 272pp. illustrations

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Good with faded, creased spine.The author interviewed some of the 30 surviving British soldiers from the First World War and combined their stories with other interviews in the Imperial War Museum and various private collections. This is very consciously the last word from the handful of survivors left alive in 2004. When they die, our final human connection with the First World War will be broken: after this book, we will have only recordings or diaries.