Percy A Story of 1918

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* This is a true story. * Percy, the protagonist, was sent to the front in 1918 and was dead three weeks later. * Written by Peter Doyle, well know historical author and WW1 historian

Peter Doyle is an author and historian specialising on the First World War, with many books on the British experience of war, the material culture of warfare and military terrain. He is a member of the British Commission of Military History, Secretary of the All Party Parliamentary War Heritage Group, and is Visiting Professor of History at London South Bank University.

"There are many excellent history books about the First World War; great poetry, wonderful plays and films, but this story of just one of the millions of men and women who left home and marched off to war tells the tale as powerfully as any. We can't know the millions, but we can know Percy. By understanding how it was for one young man from Wales, we can grasp how it was for them all, on all sides."--Michael Morpurgo