Modern Era Naval Non-Fiction Section
ME Naval Non-Fiction - Biographical
Non-Fiction books which are biographies of specific officers or men, discussion of a particular officers tactics or battles, etc in the Modern Era.
The Last of the Last: The Final Survivor of the First World War
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- By Claude Choules
In 2009, aged 108, Claude Choules became the last man alive on active service before the 1918 Armistice and the last who served in both world wars. Told of this unsought accolade, he remarked: 'Everything comes to those who wait and wait.' It was a characteristically adroit comment from a man who learned life's lessons during a rural childhood in England and later in the Royal Navy as a boy sailor, before graduating to become an explosives expert.