Sixteen-year-old Sydney is overwhelmed by the excitement of the 1914 recruitment campaigns and the bravado of men leaving for the Great War. Bursting with enthusiasm, he runs away to join up, but soon finds himself a long way from home in a frontline trench where reality - and the rats - begin to bite. Told through Sydney's optimistic letters home and his journal, this is his honest portrayal of the disillusionment and degradation of life and death in the trenches of World War I.'Find room for this indictment of the First World War' - Bookseller
Sixteen-year-old Sydney is overwhelmed by the excitement of the 1914 recruitment campaigns and the bravado of men leaving for the Great War. Bursting with enthusiasm, he runs away to join up, but soon finds himself a long way from home in a frontline trench where reality - and the rats - begin to bite. Told through Sydney's optimistic letters home and his journal, this is his honest portrayal of the disillusionment and degradation of life and death in the trenches of World War I.'Find room for this indictment of the First World War' - Bookseller
One Boy's War
32
One Boy's War
32Paperback
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781847801265 |
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| Publisher: | Frances Lincoln Children's Books |
| Publication date: | 10/21/2014 |
| Pages: | 32 |
| Sales rank: | 692,669 |
| Product dimensions: | 9.50(w) x 10.70(h) x 0.20(d) |
| Age Range: | 7 - 11 Years |