Small in physical stature, Alexander "Patsy" Pagan was seen as a giant by the men of the Gloucestershire Regiment. For three grueling years of the Great War, Pagan and his battalion endured some of the hardest fighting on the Western Front, taking part in the battles of Loos, the Somme, and Passchendaele. Wounded three times, Pagan discharged himself from hospital to rejoin his men rather than be evacuated. Making use of personal records, trench diaries, and other official papers, Peter Rostron unearths the story of this forgotten hero.