Η φρίκη του Πρώτου Παγκοσμίου Πολέμου ειδωμένη μέσα από τα μάτια ενός αλόγου. Ενός "άλογου" πρωταγωνιστή που στέλνει αντιπολεμικά μηνύματα σε μικρούς και μεγάλους.
Από την τελευταία συνέντευξη του Michael Morpurgo
I determined to write a book about the First World War, but I did want to make sure it wasn’t from one side or the other. What I really wanted to do was write a story which told it from all sides about the universal suffering of this war. So I decided to tell it through the horse’s eyes. It is interesting trying to present it for children. If you talk to children straight in a language that they really can comprehend and in a way that makes it interesting for them, then they can tackle great depth of feeling and concern because they have feelings and concerns just the same as adults, it’s just that they are not as developed in sophistication terms, but they feel as much as we do. Children are very open; they have wide eyes and if you tell them a story about the suffering of war, they know. They have televisions in the corner of their bedrooms; they know that war is a horrible thing. This is a way, in effect, of allowing them access to what is going on in the lives of these people and has been going on for hundreds of years.
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