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One Boy's War

One Boy's War

Published: 4 Nov 2010

Paperback / softback, 32 pages

Recommended for age 7+ and 9+

By Lynn Huggins-Cooper

Illustrated by Ian Benfold Haywood

Published by Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd

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A young soldier's honest portrayal, told through letters home and a frank journal, of his enthusiasm for the 1914 recruitment campaign, and joining up - followed by the disillusionment and degradation of soldiering in the trenches of World War I. 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. 

Tagged First World War , letters and war and conflict

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