Private Peaceful
By Michael Morpurgo.
Description
A stunning novel of the First World War Tragic, surprising and engaging in equal measure, Morpurgo's novel charts both the childhood of young Thomas Peaceful in the early years of the 20th century, and his eventual underage enlistment in the British army to help fight the First World War. It is, above all, a poignant story of war and about all of its many life-changing effects on those involved - also the brutality of the commanding regimes and the relentless squalor of trench warfare. It's not for the squeamish - Morpurgo tells it like it was and his honest insight is on every pa...
ISBN(s)
0007150067, 9780007150069, 9780007150076