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The Silver Sword - Ian Serraillier

Description: ISBN 0099439492 / Genre: Junior Books / Author: Ian Serraillier / Edition: New edition / Paperback / 192 Pages / Book is published ... more

The Silver Sword - Ian Serraillier ... 2003-04-03 by Red Fox

Newest Review: ... down so that he can jump onto one of them. We then jump backwards in time to discover that Edek fired the rifle on the night ... more

... that his mother was taken by the Nazis. The children managed to get out of a skylight and away over the tops of the adjoining houses before the Nazis came back and blew the house up. Forced to fend for themselves they burrowed into a cellar at the other end of the city spending the winters there and the summers outside the city in the forest. Edek became part of a smuggling gang so the children did rather well for food until the day in 1942 that he was caught by the Nazis and was taken away by them. By early 1945 Wa...more

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The Silver Sword - Ian Serraillier: World War II From A Child's Point Of View (1962 words)
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About the author: Ian Seraillier was born in 1912 and became an English teacher before the outbreak of World War II. As a Quaker he was granted the status of conscientious objector before having his first novel published in 1946. The Silver Sword, published in 1956, was one of a number of novels and poems he wrote for children. He also penned retellings of Greek myths, Beowulf and Chaucer. Seraillier developed Alzheimer's before his death in 1994. The following Note appears at the start of the book before the story begins. Note: The characters in this book are fictitious, but the story is based upon true fact. Imaginary names have ... Read the complete review