The Last Four Tommies ; As Remembrance Day Nears, a Remarkable Band of Brothers Relive the Horrors of the Trenches

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THEY are the great survivors the last four men still alive out of the millions of young British soldiers who faced the barbarism of the First World War.

Despite their combined age of 431, their minds remain remarkably sharp and their memories of the trenches of Ypres, Arras and Armentieres are as vivid and powerful as ever.

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The Last Four Tommies ; As Remembrance Day Nears, a Remarkable Band of Brothers Relive the Horrors of the Trenches

A decade ago, there were 12,000 living veterans of the'war to end all wars'.

Now, six months after the last German survivor, By Richard Van Emden and Nigel Blundell Charles Kuentz, died aged 108, these Last Tommies tell their remarkable stories in their ownwords.

And the images of the bloodstained fields of Flanders and the Somme they evoke in their moving accounts as told by Richard Van Emden in his remarkable new book are historic testimony to the horrors our heroes endured in the name of freedom.

Their stories should never be forgotten...

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