War horse by master storyteller Michael Morpurgo, is the moving story of a horse's incredible journey through the deadly first world war..."We were parted that day in the terrible hubbub of the auction ring and I was never to see her again"Joey, the six month old spindly, half-thoroughbred colt, is separated from his mother in the busy auction and is forced to start a new life as a farm horse. However, Joey soon finds a friend in the young boy Arthur who lives at the farm and soon the pair are inseparable. When Joey is just beginning to enjoy his new life, there is some terrible news. England has declared war with Germany.
At first, no-one is worried. They don't believe the war will effect them at all. They'll just go on as normal & in a few months it will all be a distant memory.
"We'll give them such a hiding as they won't ever raise their fists again to anyone. It'll be over in a few months."But one day the army comes to their small town in Devon and Joey's happy life is turned upside-down. Arthur's evil father is desperate for money and when he hears the army needs horses, he sees his opportunity. While Arthur is out he takes Joey and sells him to the army.
From that point, Joey lives a new dangerous life in the middle of World War 1 and with his new friend, the magnificent black horse Topthorn, Joey charges through the horrors of the front line. Trust, strength and courage are the only things that will carry the two horses out of the battlefields but will they make it? And will Joey ever see his beloved Arthur again? Joey's tragic stories are sure to bring you to tears, this is a book you'll never forget.
"I saw the grey soldiers ahead of us raise their rifles and heard the death rattle of a machine gun..."
