Private Peaceful

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Michael Morpurgo. Private Peaceful

Copyright

Dedication

FOREWORD

FIVE PAST TEN

TWENTY TO ELEVEN

NEARLY QUARTER PAST ELEVEN

TEN TO MIDNIGHT

TWENTY-FOUR MINUTES PAST TWELVE

NEARLY FIVE TO ONE

TWENTY-EIGHT MINUTES PAST ONE

FOURTEEN MINUTES PAST TWO

A MINUTE PAST THREE

TWENTY-FIVE PAST THREE

NEARLY FOUR O’CLOCK

FIVE TO FIVE

ONE MINUTE TO SIX

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AUTHOR’S NOTE

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With my thanks to Piet Chielens of In Flanders Field Museum in Ypres

Title Page

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“Off you go, you scallywag, you,” he said. “Enjoy yourself.”

I hardly needed to be told. There were badger holes and fox holes to peer into, deer prints to follow perhaps, flowers to pick, or butterflies to chase. But that morning I found a mouse, a dead mouse. I buried it under a pile of leaves. I was making a wooden cross for it. Father was chopping away rhythmically nearby, grunting and groaning at every stroke as he always did. It sounded at first as if Father was just groaning a bit louder. That’s what I thought it was. But then, strangely, the sound seemed to be coming not from where he was, but from somewhere high up in the branches.

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