This exhilarating historical novel by the renowned author transports readers to Flanders, 1914, where the German and British soldiers in the trenches are celebrating an unofficial truce with a lively and sociable football match. But when the officials find out they are furious. Further unofficial truces are banned, and the war goes on with bullets instead of footballs. But the memory of the match is one that will stay with the young footballers long after the war is over... Ages: 7-9yrs.