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Chargement... And in the Morningpar John Wilson
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Quite heartbreaking and the author needs commending for writing this as a YA novel! Recommended for everyone. ( ) A boy called Jim inherits his Great-Grandfather's diary on his 16th birthday. This diary tells of another Jim at 16 - one who lied about his age and joined the army to fight in the Great War after his father ( also a soldier) was killed and his mother died of a broken heart. With only the love of his girlfriend Anne to sustain him, Jim travels to the Somme in France where he endures the hardship of battle life (lice, mud, hunger and the treat of death) and makes life-long friends with the soldiers around him. Told in the form of letters/diary entries to Anne, each entry is interspersed with an actual news clipping of something that happened during that time. There is also poetry and official war letters such as the one informing Jim's mother of his father's death. An easy to read , sometimes harrowing book about the spiritual wasteland that was the French battlefields in WW1. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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In this novel by John Wilson, Jim Hay is fifteen, thinks war is a glorious adventure and cannot wait for his turn to fight. But as his father boldly marches off to battle in August, 1914, Jim must be content to record his thoughts and dreams in his journal. Gradually, Jim's simple life begins to unravel. His father is killed in action, his mother suffers a breakdown, and when he does at last join up, it is as much to find a refuge as it is to seek glory. What Jim discovers in the trenches of France is enough to dispel any romantic view of war. And while his longing for adventure is replaced by a basic need to survive, the final tragic outcome is one he never dreamed of. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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