The Mr. Goodman Stories: The Armistice Centenary Edition

November 11th 2018 marks one hundred years to the day since the Armistice was signed, the document that effectively ended the first world war – the Great War of 1914 to 1918. The guns fell silent at precisely 11:00 a.m. Paris time – the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. To honour the centenary of this truly momentous event, Steve Matchett has compiled an intimate keepsake volume. In this attractive souvenir edition - The Mr. Goodman Stories – the author has united three chapters from his highly acclaimed These Desired Things, bringing these three connected stories together within one unique binding. These A Day at the Races; Fragments from France; and Timeless Impressions of Donington Park, combine to tell of the heart-warming friendship shared between the author (during his childhood days in rural England) and Mr. Goodman – a soldier of the Great War – a survivor of those most savage, harrowing battles fought with relentless barrages of artillery shells, clouds of poisonous gas, barking machine guns, maces, knives and axes – a ghastly mix of modern technology... and the battle tools of the dark ages. Within this book’s pages Mr. Goodman conveys to his young friend the true horrors of trench warfare – laying bare the full reality of his terrifying experiences as an infantryman in the world’s first global conflict. We learn of the life-changing impact these unflinching accounts had on the young boy – how this treasured time in Mr. Goodman’s gentle company changed the future course of Steve Matchett’s adult life. These compelling stories, these genuine first-hand lessons from a desperately frightening period of our history need to be heard, need to be preserved for all time – and The Mr. Goodman Stories is Matchett’s way of doing exactly A special edition published to honour the memory of one soldier of the Great War. The message carried within the pages of this compilation volume is precious – for it tells us and future generations of just how wonderful loving friendships are – and speaks of the terribly delicate nature of global peace. A book to own – a book to hand forward. Lest we forget.