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Title: The Reluctant Tommy
Author: Ronald Skirth, Edited by Duncan Barrett
Narrator: Daniel Weyman
Format: Abridged
Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-06-11
Publisher: Macmillan Digital Audio
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs
Summary:
A moving and surprising memoir of an ordinary soldier in the First World War.
'Ella darling, There are things I have concealed from you up till now that I think you ought to know; things that have turned me from a different person from the Ronald you know.'
So, in April 1918, Ronald Skirth, a non-commissioned officer in the Royal Artillery, wrote to his sweetheart, back in England. A year before, Skirth, then just 19 years old, had been sent to fight on the Western Front. This is his story, the story of a young man who went to war a devoted servant of King and country and returned utterly convinced that war, all war, was wrong and who acted upon his convictions, making a pact with God that he would not kill. This riveting memoir was written fifty years after the end of the war, drawing on his own contemporary diary entries and letters home. With this abridged audio edition, it affords a vivid, moving and surprising insight into that most dreadful of conflicts.
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