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Great-Uncle Harry by Michael Palin
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Great-Uncle Harry by Michael Palin
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Sep 03, 2024 | ISBN 9781039002005

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“An important historical record and a well-paced story in its own right, Great-Uncle Harry is also much more than that: a tremendous act of love.” —The Guardian

“Palin’s Great-Uncle Harry . . . was a feast. Ostensibly, it was a tribute to Lance Corporal H.W.B. Palin, slain on the Somme in September 1916. But he did not merely recreate the life of a man whose body was ‘known unto God.’ Through years of research and hard writing he created a life.”The Critic

“A remarkable work of forensic genealogy, reassembling the absent bones of a man who left scant clues, told with quiet, affectionate persistence. There was an obstinate opacity to the man, and yet Palin manages to revive him.” StarTribune

“Palin’s skill as a storyteller lifts the unremarkable story of his great-uncle Harry into a moving tribute to all soldiers lost in World War I.” —Business Post

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