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1) War horse
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Master storyteller Michael Morpurgo has adapted his much-loved novel, War Horse, for a picture book audience. This powerful book for younger readers tells the enduring story of a friendship between a boy and his horse and is a gateway to help children understand the history and deadly chaos of the First World War. As we move beyond centenary commemorations and continue to strive for peace across the world, War Horse remains an important book for...
3) War horse
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set against a sweeping canvas of rural England and Europe during the First World War, begins with the remarkable friendship between a horse named Joey and a young man called Albert, who tames and trains him. When they are forcefully parted, the film follows the extraordinary journey of the horse as he moves through the war, changing and inspiring the lives of all those he meets; British cavalry, German soldiers, and a French farmer and his granddaughter....
5) Yatimah
Author
Series
Horse diaries volume 6
Publisher
Random House
Language
English
Description
In a mid-ninth-century Bedouin camp in the Arabian Desert, a horse is born to a prized Arabian war mare who dies during the birth, and the foal is raised with dreams of continuing her mother's glory as a war mare. Includes facts about Arabian horses and their importance to Bedouin tribes.
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Dreamworks Pictures, Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
2007, 2012, 2014
Language
English
Description
Fury (2014): A grizzled tank commander makes tough decisions as he and his crew fight their way across Germany in April, 1945.
Full metal jacket (1987, 2007): A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.
War horse (2012): Young Albert enlists to serve in World War I after his beloved horse is sold to the cavalry. Albert's...
Author
Publisher
Regnery History
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
From the racetrack to the battlefield—dauntless, fearless, and exemplar of Semper Fi—she was Reckless, "pride of the Marines."
A Mongolian mare who was bred to be a racehorse, Ah-Chim-Hai, or Flame-of-the-Morning, belonged to a young boy named Kim-Huk-Moon. In order to pay for a prosthetic leg for his sister, Kim made the difficult decision to sell his beloved companion. Lieutenant Eric Pedersen purchased the bodacious mare and renamed her Reckless,...
Author
Publisher
NAL Caliber
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
From the racetracks of Seoul to the battlegrounds of the Korean War, Reckless was a horse whose strength, tenacity, and relentless spirit made her a hero among a regiment of US Marines fighting for their lives on the front lines. Her Korean name was Ah-Chim-Hai, meaning Flame-of-the-Morning. A four-year-old chestnut-colored Mongolian racehorse with a white blaze down her face and three white stockings, she once amazed the crowds in Seoul with her...
Author
Publisher
Tall Cedar Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Relates the story of Comanche and his captain, Myles Keogh, and their fates at the Battle of Little Bighorn. No soldier survived the fight, but Comanche stood alone on the battlefield when it was over and became the most famous horse in America.