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The reluctant tommy : Ronald Skirth's extraordinary memoir of the First World War by Ronald Skirth is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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"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

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Author

Ronald Skirth

Publisher

Macmillan : [distributor] Macmillan Distribution (MDL)

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780330513746

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, Memoir, History

Updated

2026-03-25