Author(s): Roger Stevens,Brian Moses
Format: Paperback
No. of Pages: 112
Publisher: Pan MacMillan
Language: English
Date Published: 2014-01-30
Dimensions: 130 x 196 x 8mm
Publication City/Country: London, United Kingdom
Edition: Unabridged edition
Illustrations: 50 Illustrations, unspecified

What Are We Fighting For? explores the concept of war in a brilliantly accessible way for younger readers. Fascinating and moving in equal measure, there are poems about incredibly brave dogs, cats and pigeons; the Christmas truce of WWI when soldiers played football in No Man's Land; poems about rationing and what it was like to be an evacuee, poems about modern warfare and the reality of war today; plus lots of amazing true historical facts.

This cross-curricular poetry book is a brilliant way to get young readers thinking about both the historical and philosophical aspects of war.