### From Booklist Like Morpurgo's _Private Peaceful_ (2004), this searing World War I novel reveals the unspeakable slaughter of soldiers on all sides fighting against people who are just like them. The story is told by an English farm horse, Joey, and, as in Cynthia Kadahota's _Cracker! The Best D
War Horse
โ Scribed by Michael Morpurgo
- Year
- 1982
- Tongue
- Dutch
- Weight
- 76 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
Joey is a warhorse, but he wasn't always. Once, he was a farm horse and a gentle boy named Albert was his master. Then World War I came storming through and everything changed. Albert's father sells Joey to the army where the beautiful, red-bay horse is trained to charge the enemy, drag heavy artillery, and carry wounded soldiers not much older than Albert off of battlefields. Amongst the clamoring of guns and slogging through the cold mud, Joey wonders if the war will ever end. And if it does, will he ever find Albert again?
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