Nearby runs the Yser Canal where the Canadian John McCrae wrote his poem ‘In Flanders Fields’.Īt the Somme, around Thiepval and in Beaumont Hamel, they walk through preserved trenches and stand looking into the huge mine craters. They push their poppies into the spaces between the stones of the Menin Gate and the little wooden crosses purchased in Ypres are crowded onto the grave of a young soldier aged fifteen – their age. And in the little village of Stratharden, the Great War is to alter the course of five young lives for ever.Ī powerful, engrossing and truly epic novel, now with special new material from multi-award-winning author Theresa Breslin.Īt the battlefields in France and Belgium teenagers wander soberly around the monuments. It’s the summer of 1915, and the sound of gunfire at the Western Front can be heard across the Channel in England.
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