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.

This book is part of a book series called Poems About .

This book has been graded for interest at 7-9 years.

There are 112 pages in this book. This book was published 2014 by Pan Macmillan .

Brian Morse is a primary school teacher in Warley, West Midlands. Brian Moses and Roger Stevens have also collaborated on What Are We Fighting For? New Poems about War and 100% Unofficial! Olympic Poems for Macmillan Children's Books.