Book description
My Dear Mother, Well, I've gone and done it. I've joined the Army!
Don't be angry at me, Mother dear. I know you were glad when I wasn't
chosen in the ballot. But some of my friends were, and since they will
be fighting for King and Country, I want to do the same. It's New
Zealand, 1914, and the biggest war the world has known has just broken
out in Europe. William eagerly enlists for the army but his younger
brother, Edmund, is a conscientious objector and refuses to fight. While
William trains to be a soldier, Edmund is arrested. Both brothers will
end up on the bloody battlefields of France, but their journeys there
are very different. And what they experience at the front line will
challenge the beliefs that led them there. A compelling novel about the
First World War for 9-12 year olds.
