An eagle in the snow
Title
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An eagle in the snow
Personal Author EPSB
:
Michael, Morpurgo
Summary
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The powerful new novel from the master storyteller - inspired by the true story of one man who might have stopped World War II. 1940. The train is under attacks from German fighters. In the darkness, sheltering in a railway tunnel, the stranger in the carriage with Barney and his mother tells them a story to pass the time. And what a story. The story of a young man, a young soldier in the trenches of World War I who, on the spur of the moment, had done what he thought was the right thing. It turned out to have been the worst mistake he ever could have made - a mistake he must put right before it is too late...
Year Published
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2015-2016
Physical Description
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264 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Personal Subject
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Tandey, Henry, 1891-1977-Fiction.
Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945-Fiction.
Subject
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Soldiers -- Great Britain -- Fiction.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- France -- Marcoing -- Fiction.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Participation, British -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction.
Mothers and sons -- Fiction.
Railroad travel -- Fiction.
Reminiscing in old age -- Fiction.
Genre
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War stories.
Historical fiction.
Added Author
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Foreman, Michael, 1938-,
Summary
:
The powerful new novel from the master storyteller - inspired by the true story of one man who might have stopped World War II. 1940. The train is under attacks from German fighters. In the darkness, sheltering in a railway tunnel, the stranger in the carriage with Barney and his mother tells them a story to pass the time. And what a story. The story of a young man, a young soldier in the trenches of World War I who, on the spur of the moment, had done what he thought was the right thing. It turned out to have been the worst mistake he ever could have made - a mistake he must put right before it is too late...
ISBN
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9780008134174
Publisher
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London : HarperCollins Children's Books, 2016.
©2015
Library | Call Number | Type | Item Barcode | Status |
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Shauna May Seneca | F MOR | Book - Junior High | 31929000070725 | Teen |