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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. The Reluctant Tommy - Ronald Skirth's Extraordinary Memoir of the First World War This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .…

Condizione: Good. Second. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condizione: Very Good. Unabridged. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. …

Condizione: Good. Second. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.…

Paperback. Condizione: Fine. Tanning to edge of pages Appears unread, may have minor superficial marking. Next day dispatch from the UK (Mon-Fri). Please contact us with any queries.

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Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. A tight, bright, and clean copy with no inscriptions, no creases to spine, and no foxing to contents. 354pp. (13x19.5cm). Please contact us for any more information.

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Condizione: FINE. 2010. Cloth hardcover. Dust jacket now in clear plastic BRODART protector. Original price Sterling to front endflap. 354pp. FINE.

Paperback. Condizione: Mint. Uncorrected bound proof.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Creasing to spine. Same day dispatch (Mon- Fri) from the UK if ordered by 1pm.

Hardback. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st. First edition first printing hardback, 2010, with unclipped jacket. In overall fine, as-new condition. Internally clean. Binding tight and appears almost unopened; no annotation or inscriptions; text, illustrations and illustrated endpapers bright and clear throughout. Not an old library book.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. First Edition. The Reluctant Tommy. In the First World War, the author 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 store is more extraordinary that than. 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, and in his had was a photo of his girlfriend, who look just like Skith's own sweetheart, Ella. Afterwards Skirth resolved that he would never again help to take a human life. He altered the trajectory of guns so that they fired harmlessly, and embarked ion other small acts of sabotage at huge risk to his own life. Under immense pressure from the authorities he suffered nbreakdowns and attacks of amnesia, but somehow Skirth maintained his campaign of active pacifism, lived out the war, and returned to marry Ella. Making use of the author's letters and postcards to Ella, his contemporary journals and the memoir he wrote in his retirement fifty years later. Illustrated. 354 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. Copy in black cloth on boards in unclipped D/J. Illustrated end papers. Free of inscriptions. Clean and flat contents.

Cloth. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First Edition. Hardback. First Edition. The Reluctant Tommy. In the First World War, the author 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 store is more extraordinary that than. 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, and in his had was a photo of his girlfriend, who look just like Skith's own sweetheart, Ella. Afterwards Skirth resolved that he would never again help to take a human life. He altered the trajectory of guns so that they fired harmlessly, and embarked ion other small acts of sabotage at huge risk to his own life. Under immense pressure from the authorities he suffered nbreakdowns and attacks of amnesia, but somehow Skirth maintained his campaign of active pacifism, lived out the war, and returned to marry Ella. Making use of the author's letters and postcards to Ella, his contemporary journals and the memoir he wrote in his retirement fifty years later. Illustrated. 354 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.).…

Cloth. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First Edition. Hardback. First Edition. The Reluctant Tommy. In the First World War, the author 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 store is more extraordinary that than. 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, and in his had was a photo of his girlfriend, who look just like Skith's own sweetheart, Ella. Afterwards Skirth resolved that he would never again help to take a human life. He altered the trajectory of guns so that they fired harmlessly, and embarked ion other small acts of sabotage at huge risk to his own life. Under immense pressure from the authorities he suffered nbreakdowns and attacks of amnesia, but somehow Skirth maintained his campaign of active pacifism, lived out the war, and returned to marry Ella. Making use of the author's letters and postcards to Ella, his contemporary journals and the memoir he wrote in his retirement fifty years later. Illustrated. 354 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.).…

Hardback. Condizione: Mint. Condizione sovraccoperta: Mint. First Edition. THE RELUCTANT TOMMY Ronald Skirth's Extraordinary Memoir of the First World War. Duncan Barrett (Editor) Macmillan Publishing, London 2010 First edition ISBN 9780230746732 354pp Illustrated Hardback. This copy is in mint unread condition in a mint unclipped dust wrapper. '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 nineteen 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. Never published before, it affords a vivid, moving and surprising insight into that most dreadful of conflicts. Ref CC3.…

Hardback. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Edition. THE RELUCTANT TOMMY. Ronald Skirth Edited by Duncan Barrett. Macmillan Publishing, London. 2010 First edition ISBN 9780230746732 354pp Hardback. '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 nineteen 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. Never published before, it affords a vivid, moving and surprising insight into that most dreadful of conflicts. Ref B4.…

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1st edition dust jacket As New octavo xxiii + 354pp., b/w plates, In WWI, Ronald Skirth was an ordinary tommy. His experiences were like those of many others, save in one thing. When Skirth went out into No Man's Land after Passchendaele and saw the dead body of a teenaged German soldier, he resolved that he would never again help to take a human life. He engaged in small acts of sabotage at great risk to life.…