Eleven Eleven

Paul Dowswell

This book is about World War One, it describes life in the war from the point of veiw of two young soldiers - one English one German.The German soldier is a boy called Axel who is still 16 years old.The other main character is a boy called Will who is pretending to be eighteen but is

actually younger.

The story starts on the 11th november at 2:00am when Axel is on a train in a deep sleep. A bomb falls on an ammunition dump next to them, and lots of soldiers are injured. They have

to carry on by foot.

Meanwhile, Will and his platoon are trying to sleep by the side of the road.It is very cold and miserable and Will thinks of injuring himself so that he is sent back home.

I am only up to page forteen but I still really like this book.I find it quite hard because there are many unusual words that I don't understand.