War Game by Michael Foreman

War Game by Michael Foreman

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Features a story that takes four friends from the fields of Suffolk to France in the midst of the First World War Faced by the Germans and the appalling conditions in which they fight, their excitement and enthusiasm begins to fail. Then one day soldiers from both sides emerge from their trenches to play the game of football in No Man's Land.

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War Game by Michael Foreman

Then from somewhere, a football bounced across the frozen mud ...Freddie made a spectacular dive, caught the ball in both hands and threw it to a group of Germans. A moving and compelling story that takes four friends from the fields of Suffolk to France in the midst of the First World War Faced by the Germans and the appalling conditions in which they fight, their excitement and enthusiasm begins to fail. Then, one Christmas Day, an extraordinary thing happens. One by one, soldiers from both sides cautiously emerge from their trenches and put aside for a few hours the war that has made them enemies to play the historic game of football in No Man's Land.
Michael Foreman is an award-winning children's author and illustrator. prestigious awards. He is a visiting tutor at the Royal College of Art, and at his house in St Ives, Cornwall.
SKU Non disponible
ISBN 13 9780140371390
ISBN 10 0140371397
Titre War Game
Auteur Michael Foreman
État Non disponible
Type de reliure Paperback
Éditeur Penguin Random House Children's UK
Année de publication 1995-04-10
Nombre de pages 96
Note de couverture La photo du livre est présentée à titre d'illustration uniquement. La reliure, la couverture ou l'édition réelle peuvent varier.
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