War Game: The acclaimed illustrated children’s picture book about World War I

by Michael Foreman (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2006

  $39.23

  A special lavishly illustrated new edition of Michael Foreman's classic story.

  It's 1914 when everything changes for a group of bys 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 trences 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...

• Used

  Paperback
  1995

  $3.40

  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

  $4.18

  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.