Even when the fighting is over the effects of war echo and reverberate through many generations. This collection of short stories looks at the way war shapes and changes lives, in many different ways. There is the semi-autobiographical story of a young child's encounter with his terrifying, shell-shocked grandfather; a contemporary aircraft caught up in the horrors of the Dresden bombing and the suspected appearance of a Nazi war criminal in an ordinary northern town.

 

This book was recognised by the Carnegie Award. The CILIP Carnegie Medal is awarded by childrens librarians for an outstanding book written in English for children and young people.

This book is part of a book series called Plus .

There are 96 pages in this book. This is a short story book. This book was published 1995 by Penguin Books Ltd .

Robert Westall -Twice winner of the Carnegie Medal. -Winner of the Smarties Prize.