Tommy Atkins at Home and Abroad

"Stoney broke and alone in London. That's how I found myself one day some years before the Great War." So begins Fredrick French's Tommy Atkins at Home and Abroad , an enormously entertaining memoir that tells the story of one remarkably articulate British soldier's experiences of enlistment, training, desertion, re-enlistment, travel to India, and serving in the Mesopotamian theatre (now Iraq) during World War I.