How Can a Pigeon Be a War Hero? And Other Very Important Questions and Answers About the First World War

Tracey Turner

Ages 9 to 11
08 May 2014
9781447259909
160 pages

Synopsis

Why did the First World War start? Who was fighting who? Did soldiers still fight with swords? Had aeroplanes been invented yet? What was it like to be inside the first tank sent to war? How could a shaving brush help you escape being captured? Did animals fight in the war? How can a pigeon be a war hero? What was the Women's Land Army? Why did it go on so long? How did it end?

Find out the answers to these and lots of other exciting questions in How Can a Pigeon Be a War Hero? And Other Very Important Questions and Answers About the First World War. Published in association with the Imperial War Museum, Tracey Turner's brilliantly informative book will tell you everything you ever needed to know about World War I.

Did soldiers still fight with Swords? How could a shaving brush help you escape being captured? These and lots of other questions answered in this absorbing fact book.
Another Imperial War Museum collaboration, packed with info about the First World War in an accessable Q&A format.
The information provided is excellent, not patronizing, but just right for KS2 and younger children in KS3.