Title:
The Great War : stories inspired by items from the First World War
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Edition:
First U.S. edition.
Publication Date:
2015
2014
Publication Information:
Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2015.
©2014
Physical Description:
289 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
ISBN:
9780763675547
Abstract:
Writers of this collection of short stories were inspired to write about the First World War by physical objects associated with the war.
General Note:
Short stories.
Contents:
Our Jacko / Michael Morpurgo -- Another kind of missing / A.L. Kennedy -- Don't call it glory / Marcus Sedwick -- The country you called home / John Boyne -- When they were needed most / Tracy Chevalier -- A world that has no war in it / David Almond -- A Harlem Hellfighter and his horn / Tanya Lee Stone -- Maud's story / Adèle Geras -- Captain Rosalie / Timothée de Fombelle -- Each slow dusk / Sheena Wilkinson -- Little wars / Ursula Dubosarsky.
Language:
English
