Description
The book tells the story of a 16-year-old boy who joins the army to fight in World War I. He is excited at first, but soon finds out that the war is not as glamorous as he thought it was. He is in a frontline trench and is constantly fighting off rats. He starts to lose hope and starts to write letters home to tell his family about what is happening. His family eventually sends him back home, but he never forgot what he went through during the war.
Sixteen-year-old Sydney is overwhelmed by the excitement of the 1914 recruitment campaigns and the bravado of men leaving for the Great War. Bursting with enthusiasm, he runs away to join up, but soon finds himself a long way from home in a frontline trench where reality - and the rats - begin to bite. Told through Sydney's optimistic letters home and his journal, this is his honest portrayal of the disillusionment and degradation of life and death in the trenches of World War I. 'Find room for this indictment of the First World War' - Bookseller
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