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Index
Cover
Contents
About the Book
Title Page
Who’ll Sing the Anthem? Who Will Tell the Story?: Introduction by Michael Morpurgo
Michael Morpurgo: On les Aura by Barroux (translated from the French by Sarah Ardizzone)
AT WAR
War Horse by Michael Morpurgo
Dame Evelyn Glennie: Percussion instruments used during the First World War
Shami Chakrabarti: ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’ by Wilfred Owen
Lord Paddy Ashdown: ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ by Wilfred Owen
Frank Field: ‘Strange Meeting’ by Wilfred Owen
Malorie Blackman: Walter Tull (1888–1918)
Julian Barnes: ‘The General’ by Siegfried Sassoon
Ben Barnes: Regeneration by Pat Barker
Emma Chichester Clark: Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
Charlie Higson: Charley’s War by Pat Mills and Joe Colquhoun
Jeremy Irvine: Albert Ball
Ben Elton: Preface to All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Caroline Wyatt: All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Cathy Newman: Not So Quiet by Helen Zenna Smith
Meg Rosoff: A Man Could Stand Up by Ford Maddox Ford
Helen Skelton: ‘Breakfast’ by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
Susan Cooper: In Parenthesis by David Jones
Antony Beevor: Duff Cooper
Richard Curtis: Blackadder Goes Forth by Richard Curtis and Ben Elton
Anthony Horowitz: ‘Bombed Last Night’ (anon.)
David Almond: Oh, What a Lovely War!
Lissa Evans: Map Reading by Stanley Spencer
Clare Morpurgo: Travoys arriving with wounded at a dressing station at Smol, Macedonia by Stanley Spencer
Ian Beck: The Great Western Railway War Memorial by Charles Sergeant Jagger
Emma Thompson: The Wipers Times
Klaus Flugge: ‘Prayer After the Slaughter’ by Kurt Tucholsky
Jamila Gavin: Indian soldiers
Bali Rai: Sikh soldiers
Sir Roger Bannister: Queen Alexandra’s Army Auxiliary Corps
Michelle Magorian: Young soldiers
Mariella Frostrup: ‘Last Post’ by Carol Ann Duffy
John Boyne: ‘The Death of Harry Patch’ by Andrew Motion
Howard Goodall: ‘In Flanders Fields’ by John McCrae
HRH The Duchess of Cornwall: ‘The Christmas Truce’ by Carol Ann Duffy
Michael Foreman: War Game by Michael Foreman
AT HOME
Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo
James Patterson: Lord of the Nutcracker Men by Iain Lawrence
Dame Jacqueline Wilson: A Vicarage Family by Noel Streatfeild
Theresa Breslin: Ghost Soldier by Theresa Breslin
Jilly Cooper: Animals in the First World War
Eoin Colfer: Stay Where You Are and Then Leave by John Boyne
Anne Harvey: ‘Easter Monday (In Memoriam E.T.)’ by Eleanor Farjeon
Dame Gail Rebuck, Baroness Gould, DBE: ‘In a Field’ by Seamus Heaney and ‘As the team’s head-brass’ by Edward Thomas
Alan Titchmarsh: ‘Tall Nettles’ by Edward Thomas
Joanna Lumley: Rudyard Kipling’s commemorative scrolls
Jenny Agutter: ‘To a Bulldog’ by J. C. Squire
Sandi Toksvig: ‘I Didn’t Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier’ by Alfred Bryan and Al Piantadosi
Laura Dockrill: ‘Many Sisters to Many Brothers’ by Rose Macaulay
Virginia McKenna: ‘A War Film’ by Teresa Hooley
Kate Mosse: ‘My Boy Jack’ by Rudyard Kipling
Shirley Hughes: Gassed by John Singer Sargent
Jon Snow: ‘The Soldier’ by Rupert Brooke
Sir Andrew Motion: Missing by Sir Andrew Motion
Nicholas Hytner: In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
Miranda Hart: ‘Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit-Bag’
AFTER
The Butterfly Lion by Michael Morpurgo
Morris Gleitzman: The Sydney Botanic Gardens memorial
Nick Sharratt: Jelly Babies
Jonathan Stroud: George Davison
Sir Tony Robinson: Grandpa Jack
Sir Quentin Blake: Dicky Herbert
Simon Mayo: ‘No Man’s Land’ by Eric Bogle
Sir Jonathon Porritt: ‘Can You Remember?’ by Edward Blunden
Raymond Briggs: ‘Aunties’ by Raymond Briggs
Sarah Brown: Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain
Michael Longley: ‘In Memoriam’ and ‘Harmonica’ by Michael Longley
K. M. Peyton: My father-in-law
Sir Terry Pratchett: Johnny and the Dead by Terry Pratchett
Dr Rowan Williams: ‘Swept and Garnished’ by Rudyard Kipling
Roger McGough: ‘A Child’s Nightmare’ by Robert Graves
Anne Fine: The Book of the Banshee by Anne Fine
Rory Stewart: ‘In Time of “The Breaking of Nations”’ by Thomas Hardy
Brian Patten: ‘To a Conscript of 1940’ by Sir Herbert Read
Chris Riddell: Drawn from Memory by E. H. Shepard
Flora Fergusson: ‘Gone’ by Flora Fergusson
Maggie Fergusson: My grandfather
Carol Hughes: ‘For the Duration’ and ‘The Last of the 1st/5th Lancashire Fusiliers’ by Ted Hughes
Catherine Johnson: ‘Y Blotyn Du’ (‘The Black Spot’) by Hedd Wyn
Frank Gardner: The Lark Ascending by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Timeline
Picture Section
Useful websites
Contributors
About Michael Morpurgo and Ian Beck
Acknowledgements
Copyright
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