Britain's Last Tommies

This oral history presents the firsthand stories and memories of Britain’s last living WWI veterans—complete with then and now photographs. Historian Richard van Emden has spent decades interviewing and carefully recording the memories of over 270 veterans who served in the First World War. He now presents this extraordinary record in Britain’s Last Tommies . Alongside stories told by the veterans themselves, van Emden includes his own poignant, moving—sometimes funny—memories of these remarkabl