The Silver Sword (A Puffin Book) (Lythway Large Print Books) (Puffin audiobooks)

by Ian Serraillier

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The night the Nazis come to take their mother away, three children escape in a terrifying scramble across the rooftops. Alone in the chaos of Warsaw they have to learn to survive on their own. Then they meet Jan, a ragged boy with a paperknife - the silver sword - that they recognize as belonging to their lost father. The sword becomes their symbol of hope as, with Jan, they begin the hazardous journey across war-torn Europe to find their parents. Ian Serraillier's moving account of a family torn apart by war speaks as much to us today as it did when it was first written.
  • ISBN13 9780857550286
  • Publish Date 1 December 2011 (first published December 1956)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 4 February 2015
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Vintage Publishing
  • Imprint Jonathan Cape Ltd
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 256
  • Language English