The Birds of Flanders Fields
Title | The Birds of Flanders Fields PDF eBook |
Author | Twinkl Originals |
Publisher | Twinkl |
Pages | 96 |
Release | 2021-10-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 191433132X |
Bang goes another deafening explosion. Though they are young, the birds are used to it and do not flinch. It is 1916. A spindly tree stands in No Man’s Land during the First World War amid wooden stumps and razor-sharp wire. Two birds sit in the tree. Hatched into the horrors of war, they try to figure out why the constant danger occurs. Humans live in trenches on either side – but are they friends or enemies? As the war rages on, glimmers of hope and colour appear. Can the birds’ plan to sing for peace finally see an end to the years of danger? ‘The Birds of Flanders Fields’ is a work of fiction set on the front lines of the First World War. Download the full eBook and explore supporting teaching materials at www.twinkl.com/originals Join Twinkl Book Club to receive printed story books every half-term at www.twinkl.co.uk/book-club (UK only).
The Birds of Flanders Fields
Title | The Birds of Flanders Fields PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2021 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781915263582 |
In Flanders Fields
Title | In Flanders Fields PDF eBook |
Author | Norman Jorgensen |
Publisher | Fremantle Press |
Pages | 39 |
Release | 2015-01-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1925162605 |
An eloquent counterpoint to the senselessness and inhumanity of war, In Flanders Fields tells the story of a young homesick World War I soldier who risks his life to cross the no-man's-land and rescue a robin caught in the barbed wire that separates the opposing forces.
Birdsong
Title | Birdsong PDF eBook |
Author | Sebastian Faulks |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 498 |
Release | 2012-03-21 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0307820386 |
#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A mesmerising story of love and war spanning three generations and the unimaginable gulf between the First World War and the 1990s In this "overpowering and beautiful novel" (The New Yorker), the young Englishman Stephen Wraysford passes through a tempestuous love affair with Isabelle Azaire in France and enters the dark, surreal world beneath the trenches of No Man's Land. Sebastian Faulks creates a world of fiction that is as tragic as A Farewell to Arms and as sensuous as The English Patient, crafted from the ruins of war and the indestructibility of love.
The Bedside Book of Birds
Title | The Bedside Book of Birds PDF eBook |
Author | Graeme Gibson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 392 |
Release | 2021-04-15 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781526633675 |
Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey
Title | Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey PDF eBook |
Author | Kathleen Rooney |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 338 |
Release | 2020-08-11 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0525507825 |
"Both heartbreaking and sharply funny...Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey is brilliant and surprising at every turn."--Rebecca Makkai, Pulitzer finalist for The Great Believers A heart-tugging and gorgeously written novel based on the incredible true story of a WWI messenger pigeon and the soldiers whose lives she forever altered, from the author of Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk. From the green countryside of England and the gray canyons of Wall Street come two unlikely heroes: one a pigeon and the other a soldier. Answering the call to serve in the war to end all wars, neither Cher Ami, the messenger bird, nor Charles Whittlesey, the Army officer, can anticipate how their lives will briefly intersect in a chaotic battle in the forests of France, where their wills will be tested, their fates will be shaped, and their lives will emerge forever altered. A saga of hope and duty, love and endurance, as well as the claustrophobia of fame, Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey is a tragic yet life-affirming war story that the world has never heard. Inspired by true events of World War I, Kathleen Rooney resurrects two long-forgotten yet unforgettable figures, recounting their tale in a pair of voices that will change the way that readers look at animals, freedom, and even history itself.
World War I Poetry
Title | World War I Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Edith Wharton |
Publisher | Arcturus Publishing |
Pages | 153 |
Release | 2017-09-21 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1788880196 |
The horrors of the First World War released a great outburst of emotional poetry from the soldiers who fought in it as well as many other giants of world literature. Wilfred Owen, Rupert Brooke and W B Yeats are just some of the poets whose work is featured in this anthology. The raw emotion unleashed in these poems still has the power to move readers today. As well as poems detailing the miseries of war there are poems on themes of bravery, friendship and loyalty, and this collection shows how even in the depths of despair the human spirit can still triumph.