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“Early on Christmas morning the guns stop firing. A deathly silence creeps over the pitted and ruined landscape. A young soldier peers through a periscope over the top of the trench. Way out over no-man’s-land, he sees a small red shape moving on the barbed wire. A brightly coloured robin is trapped. One wing is flapping helplessly.”

Notes
Includes the first verse of the poem “In Flanders Fields” by Lt Col. John McCrae

For children aged 8 to 10. World War, 1914-1918 — Juvenile fiction.
1 v. (unpaged) : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.#280323 A beautifully illustrated book.