The Unknown Warrior by John Nichol (Simon & Schuster, 2024)
History
The Unknown Warrior by John Nichol (ISBN: 9781398509443, hardback) is harrowing, moving, compelling and, according to one of our customers: ‘Should be compulsory reading in every high school.’ Nichol, a former Tornado navigator and prolific writer on military history, tells the story of how the idea of the ‘unknown soldier’ came about, and how one dead, unnamed soldier came to be chosen to represent so many of the missing. Moved from the battlefields to be buried at Westminster Abbey, the unknown soldier gave a focus for the grief of a nation that was heart-broken at the loss of their sons.