In 1918, Percy Edwards was conscripted into the Royal Welsh Fusiliers and sent to the front. He served there only three weeks before being killed in action, one of more than 700,000 British soldiers to die in the war. This book tells his story--and, by extension, the story of the British experience of the war.
Drawing on a cache of letters found in a flea market a few years ago, Percy brings the experience of the final year of the war to...