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MY MOTHER'S EYES THE STORY OF A BOY SOLDIER 
Author:   Mark Wilson    Author info     
RRP:   $16.99
Online Price :  $15.30
10+ Copy Price :  $14.45         
Format:   Paperback 
Type of Book:   Australian Picture Book 
ISBN:   9780734411914
Category:   Anzac Day
Australian History
War
Published:   27/01/2011
Status:   Reprinting/No Due Date
The publisher has indicated this title will be reprinted but has not supplied a due date. This title can be ordered, but we currently do not have this title in stock.


DESCRIPTION:

A fifteen-year-old Australian farm boy lies about his age to enlist to war and is caught up in the horrors of World War I in Egypt and on the Western Front, where 5,500 Australian troops were lost in two days at Fromelles alone. This boy s story in this unique, stirring picture book is based on true stories of the twenty-three teenage soldiers one only fourteen who fought with the Australian army in World War I, as recorded at the Australian War Memorial (their names among a list of 60,000 Australian soldiers killed in that war). The author s grandfather was a boy soldier who, unlike the hero of the book, did survive to return home. Told in the boy s own simple language and with extracts from his letters home, the story is extremely moving and evocative of the real tragedy of that worst of all wars.


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English Year 6 Literature


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