War Horse
by Michael Morpurgo
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1405226668
- ISBN 13
- 9781405226660
- Seller
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Traralgon, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Egmont, London, 2007. Reprint. Medium Trade Paperback. Very Good. Medium Trade Paperback. 182 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Egmont, London, 2007. Reprint. *** CONDITION: This book is in very good condition. More specifically: Covers have light creasing. Corners of covers are lightly bumped. Spine is uncreased. . Pages are clean and unmarked and in excellent condition. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: Sold to a drunken farmer, Joey, a beautiful red-bay foal with a distinctive cross on his nose, finds a friend in the farmer's son, Albert. His father brutally demands Joey work or be sold, so Albert gently trains him to pull the plough. But it's not enough. When war breaks out, Albert's father, needy for money for his struggling farm, sells Joey to the army, where he, like the soldiers around him, must try to cope with the horrors of the First World War. Joey and another thoroughbred horse, Topthorn, lead in a terrible cavalry charge towards the machine guns of the enemy's lines. Joey is captured by the Germans and for while he is lovingly cared for by Emilie, a young French girl and her grandfather. But he and Topthorn must pull a heavy gun, battling through the mud until Topthorn dies of exhaustion. Joey wanders in no man's land, back towards the British trench, but despite a joyful reunion with Albert, Joey is not out of danger. First tetanus threatens his life, and even then Emilie's grandfather has to bid to save him from the butcher. The old man promised his granddaughter when she died he would find the horse she loved and buy him, but recognising Albert's love for Joey, he sells Joey back to Albert on condition he will love for him all his life - for the princely sum of one English penny. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Children & Young Adult; 1001 Children's Books You Must Read; ISBN/EAN: 9781405226660. Inventory No: 23120109.. 9781405226660
Synopsis
In the deadly chaos of the First World War, one horse witnesses the reality of battle from both sides of the trenches.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Manyhills Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23120109
- Title
- War Horse
- Author
- Michael Morpurgo
- Format/Binding
- Medium Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1405226668
- ISBN 13
- 9781405226660
- Publisher
- Egmont
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2007
- Keywords
- BZDB5 Children & Young Adult; War Horse
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children & Young Adult; 1001 Children's Books You Must Read;
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Trade Paperback
- Used to indicate any paperback book that is larger than a mass-market paperback and is often more similar in size to a hardcover...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.