HE also manages to pull of most of the tricks and strategems in the book, trying to make the Germans believe that his forces are much larger than in reality. If you’ve got any suggestions for books that should be on my list though please do leave me a comment below. I fell like if you like books with adventure and history, then your lucky because now this book is everywhere and is popular. Michael is also the illustrator for many of Michael Morpurgo's best-selling books, including Not Bad for a Bad Lad. In iarna anului 1940, un tren ce se indrepta catre Londra a fost atacat de raidul aerian al trupelor germane, mecanicul locomotivei fiind obligat sa adaposteasca trenul intr-un tunel, pentru a salva viata calatorilor.

Barney and his mother are traveling on a train when it needs to hide in a tunnel to avoid bombing by the German planes overhead.Their train is forced to take shelter in a tunnel and there, in the darkness, a stranger— a fellow passenger—begins to tell them a story about two young soldiers who came face to face in the previous war. I don’t want to give away the whole story, but it is set in a train that is sheltering in a railway tunnel having been under attack from German fighters. To get his mind off of the dark, the stranger begins to tell them a story of he and his friend, a boy who he grew up with in an orphanage. he was 25 and Henry only saw him for a few moment's and it wasn't a war situation and there already has been so much killing.

This is one of those books that can be read on so many levels that any reader (whether middle school child, teen or adult) would get something from reading it. A man sitting opposite then tells Barney and his nan a story about his friend Billy Byron, a First World War soldier who could have prevented the war from beginning.LMC then went to a birthday party last weekend where the children were all given a book as a gift when they left instead of a party bag.