War Game

by Michael Foreman (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1995

  $3.52

  Then from somewhere, a football bounced across the frozen mud ...Freddie made a spectacular dive, caught the ball in both hands and threw it to a group of Germans. A moving and compelling story that takes four friends from the fields of Suffolk to France in the midst of the First World War Faced by the Germans and the appalling conditions in which they fight, their excitement and enthusiasm begins to fail. Then, one Christmas Day, an extraordinary thing happens. One by one, soldiers from both sides cautiously emerge from their trenches and put aside for a few hours the war that has made them enemies to play the historic game of football in No Man's Land.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1993

  $3.77

  A companion volume to War Boy which aims to teach children about the different aspects of World War I. It retells the true story of how, on Christmas Day, the British and German soldiers stopped fighting, left their trenches and played a game of football in No Man's Land. This book won the Smarties Prize in 1993.