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Best-selling writer Charlie Connelly comes back with a First World Warfare memoir of his great uncle, Edward Connelly, who was simply an ordinary guy sent to struggle in a warfare famous brands that your world experienced never seen. But this is not only his story; it's the story of all the young forgotten troops who fought and bravely died for their country. The Overlooked Soldier tells the storyplot of Private Edward Connelly, aged 19, killed in the First World Warfare a week prior to the Armistice and immediately overlooked, even, it appears, by his own family. Edward died on a similar day, and within the same military services offensive, as Wilfred Owen. They died just a few miles apart and yet there can't be a bigger compare between their legacies. Edward had been delivered into poverty in western world London on the eve of the 20th hundred years, had a job cleaning railway carriages, was conscripted into the army at age 18, and delivered to the Western Entrance from where he would never come back. He is placed buried miles from home in a small military services cemetery on the outskirts of any obscure town close to the French boundary in european Belgium. No-one has ever before been to him. Like thousands of other young males, Edward's life and loss of life were overlooked. By delving into and uncovering letters, poems and warfare diaries to reconstruct his great uncle's simple life and needless loss of life; Charlie fills in the blanks of Edward's life with the experience of similar teenagers giving a words to the voiceless. Edward Connelly's tragic story comes to symbolize all the teenagers who gone off to the Great War rather than came home. That is a publication about the unsung heroes, the normal men who do their responsibility with greatest courage, and who are entitled to to be remembered.
