The Last Fighting Tommy: The Life of Harry Patch, the Only Surviving Veteran of the Trenches

'The Last Fighting Tommy' tells the extraordinary and moving story of a man whose life has spanned six monarchs and 20 Prime Ministers. Harry Patch, 110 years old, is the last British soldier alive to have fought in the trenches of the First World War. From his vivd menories of an Edwardian childhood, the horror of the Great War and fighting in the mud of the Battle of Passchendale to working on the home front in the Second World War and fame in later life as a veteran, 'The Last Fighting Tommy' is the story of an ordinary man's extraordinary life.