{"product_id":"the-forgotten-soldier-charlie-connelly-9780007584628","title":"The Forgotten Soldier: He Wasn't a Soldier, He Was Just a Boy","description":"\u003cp\u003eBestselling author Charlie Connelly returns with a First World War memoir of his great uncle, Edward Connelly, who was an ordinary boy sent to fight in a war the likes of which the world had never seen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut this is not just his story; it is the story of all the young forgotten soldiers who fought and bravely died for their country\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Forgotten Soldier tells the story of Private Edward Connelly, aged 19, killed in the First World War a week before the Armistice and immediately forgotten, even, it seems, by his own family.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdward died on exactly the same day, and as part of the same military offensive, as Wilfred Owen. They died only a few miles apart and yet there cannot be a bigger contrast between their legacies. Edward had been born into poverty in west London on the eve of the twentieth century, had a job washing railway carriages, was conscripted into the army at the age of eighteen and sent to the Western Front from where he would never return.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe lies buried miles from home in a small military cemetery on the outskirts of an obscure town close to the French border in western Belgium. No-one has ever visited him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike thousands of other young boys, Edward's life and death were forgotten.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy delving into and uncovering letters, poems and war diaries to reconstruct his great uncle's brief life and needless death; Charlie fills in the blanks of Edward's life with the experiences of similar young men giving a voice to the voiceless. Edward Connelly's tragic story comes to represent all the young men who went off to the Great War and never came home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a book about the unsung heroes, the ordinary men who did their duty with utmost courage, and who deserve to be remembered.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Charlie Connelly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0007584628\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780007584628\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harper Element\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/20\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.44lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.70d","brand":"Charlie Connelly","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48517254021375,"sku":"9780007584628","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5aa74208-8acc-430b-883a-4f118dd83051.jpg?v=1778730938","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-forgotten-soldier-charlie-connelly-9780007584628","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}