Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo
Farm Boy
An Elephant in the Garden
With my thanks to Piet Chielens of
In Flanders Field Museum in Ypres
Other titles by Michael Morpurgo include:
Outlaw – the story of Robin Hood
Little Manfred
Shadow
An Elephant in the Garden
Running Wild
Kaspar
Born to Run
The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips
Farm Boy
The Butterfly Lion
Sparrow - the story of Joan of Arc
Alone on a Wide, Wide Sea
Although the title was inspired by the name on a gravestone in Ypres, this novel is a work of fiction. Any references to real people (living or dead), actual locales and historical events are used solely to lend the fiction an appropriate cultural and historical setting. All other names, characters, places and incidents portrayed in this book are the product of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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Michael Morpurgo, Private Peaceful