War Game: Village Green to No-Man's-Land - the story of the First World War Christmas Day truce of 1914

A special lavishly illustrated new edition of Michael Foreman's classic story. It's 1914 when everything changes for a group of boys growing up and playing football in the Suffolk countryside. Far away, in a place called Sarajevo, an Archduke has been killed and a web of global events results in a call for all British men to do their duty 'for King and Country' and join the army to fight the Germans overseas. The boys sign up for what sounds like an adventure and a chance to see the world. After basic training the boys sail to France where they find themselves fighting on the front line. Living in the trenches in constant fear for their lives is nothing like they expected and only a bombed-out wasteland, no-man's-land, separates their trenches from those of their German enemies. Then, on Christmas Day, something remarkable happens as the German and British armies stop fighting and meet in the middle of no-man's-land. The enemies talk, play football and become friends. But the war isn't over, the two sides resume fighting and the group of Suffolk lads are ordered to charge across no-man's-land...

一个特别的丰富的插图迈克尔福尔曼的经典故事的新版本。1914年，一群男孩在萨福克郡的乡下长大，踢足球，一切都变了。在遥远的萨拉热窝，一位大公被杀，一系列全球事件促使英国人呼吁所有英国人“为国王和国家”履行职责，加入军队与海外的德国人作战。男孩们报名参加听起来像是一场冒险和一个看世界的机会。经过基本训练后，男孩们坐船去了法国，他们发现自己在前线作战。生活在战壕里，时刻担心自己的生命安全，这与他们的预期完全不同，他们和德国敌人的战壕之间只有一片被轰炸过的荒地，无人区。然后，在圣诞节那天，一件非同寻常的事情发生了，德国和英国军队停止战斗，在无人地带相遇。敌人交谈，踢足球，成为朋友。但是战争还没有结束，双方继续战斗，萨福克郡的小伙子们被命令冲过无人地带……