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Duncan Barrett

    The Reluctant Tommy
    • The Reluctant Tommy

      An Extraordinary Memoir of the First World War

      • 354 pages
      • 13 hours of reading

      This is the story of a young man who went to war a devoted servant of King and country and returned utterly convinced that war was wrong and who acted upon his convictions, making a pact with God that he would not kill. This memoir, written 50 years after the end of the war, draws on his diary entries and letters home.

      The Reluctant Tommy