A special lavishly illustrated new edition of Michael Foreman's classic story.
It's 1914 when everything changes for a group of boys growing up and playing football in the Suffolk countryside. Far away, in a place called Sarajevo, an Archduke has been killed and a web of global events results in a call for all British men to do their duty 'for King and Country' and join the army to fight the germans overseas. The boys sign up for what sounds like an adventure and a chance to see the world.
After basic training the boys sail to France where they find themselves fighting on the front line. Living in the trenches in constant fear for their lives is nothing like they expected and only a bombed-out wasteland, no-man's-land, separates their trenches from those of their German enemies.
Then, on Christmas Day, something remarkable happens as the German and British armies stop fighting and meet in the middle of no-man's-land. The enemies talk, play football and become friends. But the war isn't over, the two sides resume fighting and the group of Suffolk lads are ordered to charge across no-man's-land…
From the author of War Boy, After the War Was Over, Farm Boy and Billy the Kid and the illustrator of Platinum Jubilee picture book There Once Is a Queen.
- ISBN13 9781843650898
- Publish Date 23 October 2006 (first published 1 April 1994)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 8 February 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Pavilion Books
- Imprint Pavilion Children's Books
- Format Paperback
- Pages 72
- Language English
- URL http://harpercollins.co.uk