Marcia Williams, author and illustrator of of Archie's War Colquhoun's skilful comic-style line artwork tell the story in pictures and gives a real feel of life and death in the trenches and doesn't duck the tragedy or the stupidity. Like my grandfather Charlie, the boy-soldier Charley has to grow up fast and and learns the hard way after joining up. Although the similar title is a coincidence (I can't help my real-life grandfather having a similar name as Mill's fictitious character!) I do however love the books.

Beautifully illustrated and sensitively told, this story will live on for generations to come.Ĭharley's War is a British comic strip written by Pat Mills and drawn by Joe Colquhoun, originally published in Battle Picture Weekly from January 1979 to October 1985 and now available as books. I recommend The Amazing Tale of Ali Pasha, written and illustrated by Michael Foreman, the remarkable and true story of the young sailor Alf Friston who found a tortoise on the beach at Gallipoli in 1915. Michael Morpurgo, whose latest book on the first world war is the anthology Only Remembered Read the book that started it all the stunning wartime classic.Michael Foreman, The Amazing Tale of Ali Pasha Inspiring a long-running stage show and a box office film directed by Steven Spielberg, War Horse has become an international sensation. But none have become as famous as War Horse. This is his story.įormer Children's Laureate and award-winning author, Michael Morpurgo, has written nearly 100 books for children, many of them war stories. The power of war and the beauty of peace. One horse has the seen the best and the worst of humanity. The shells whined and roared overhead, and every explosion seemed like an earthquake to us. All around me men cried and fell to the ground, and horses reared and screamed in an agony of fear and pain. Bombarded by artillery, with bullets knocking riders from his back, Joey tells a powerful story of the truest friendships surviving in terrible times. In the deadly chaos of the First World War, one horse witnesses the reality of battle from both sides of the trenches.

it can only be Michael Morpurgo's War Horse. The book that inspired Steven Spielberg's Hollywood blockbuster movie and an internationally acclaimed stage show.

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