The paperback edition of the memoir from Ronald Skirth, who as an ordinary tommy in WWI. He decided not to kill anyone when he saw the dead body of teenaged German soldier. Using his letters to this sweetheart Ella, his contemporary journals and the memoir he wrote in his retirement 50 years later, this is the fascinating story of a man who stuck to his principles. With a foreword by Jon Snow. 'An important contribution to the literature of war...' Richard Holmes, "Evening Standard"