WAR HORSE

First published in 1982, we are thrilled to have this paperback reprint of what is now regarded as a modern classic. The story begins: 'My earliest memories are a confusion of hilly fields and dark, damp stables, and rats that scampered along the beams above my head. But I remember well enough the day of the horse sale. The terror of it stayed with me all my life. I was not yet six months old, a gangling, leggy colt who had never been further than a few feet from his mother. We were parted that day in the terrible hubbub of the auction ring and I was never to see her again. She was a fine working farm horse, getting on in years... she was sold within minutes... but somehow I was more difficult to dispose of. Perhaps it was the wild look in my eye as I circled the ring in desperate search of my mother... I was dragged along the lanes tied on a short rope to the tail board of a farm cart so that every twist and turn wrenched at my neck.' Young Albert adopts the colt, and then is called up to serve in the trenches of the First World War where he is reunited with his War Horse. An unforgettable story which ends at Christmastime in the village. 182pp, paperback.