An eagle in the snow
By: Michael Morpurgo ; illustrated by Michael Foreman
Contributors: Foreman, Michael, 1938- illustrator
Publisher: HarperCollinsChildren'sBooks; HARPER COLLINS
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780008134167; 9780008134150; 9780007950966; 9780008134174; 9780008134181
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; War stories; British; Fiction; World War, 1939-1945; World War; Military campaigns; History; Campaigns; Mothers and sons; Reminiscing in old age; Storytelling; Juvenile fiction; Military participation; Historical fiction; Soldiers; British Participation; Railroad travel
Description: The powerful new novel from the master storyteller - inspired by the true story of one man who might have stopped World War II. 1940. The train is under attacks from German fighters. In the darkness, sheltering in a railway tunnel, the stranger in the carriage with Barney and his mother tells them a story to pass the time. And what a story. The story of a young man, a young soldier in the trenches of World War I who, on the spur of the moment, had done what he thought was the right thing. It turned out to have been the worst mistake he ever could have made - a mistake he must put right before it is too late ...