by
Geert Spillebean
Patrick Condon lives in Watrford city in 1913,but he is bored of his everyday life and dreams of joining the army. However there is one complication,he's 12 years old. Deciding he can't wait any longer, Patrick enrols using his 17 year old brother's name John Condon.
12 year old Patrick is obviously not even nearly 17 but nobody seems to care and he fits right in. He loves the military life and works hard,but when World War one begins in 1914 he gets more than he asked for.Poor Patrick Condon suffers a gruesome death,choking on poisonous gas at age 14.
This novel is based on a true story. John Condon was killed at age 14 in World War One,but John would have been 18 thatyear,which goes to say that there's a good chance that Patrick Condon was killed in Belgium, at age 14.
I this story has a very interesting plot. However the author didn't quite pull the actual creative writing together well enough for such a good plot.I think that the same ideas just with a different writer would have been better.I didn't think the descriptions were as good as the plot and all the ideas and events in the novel.
However it was definitely a good and inteesting book and I would recommend it
Katie Ni Dheá
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