Private+Peaceful

**Private Peaceful** by Michael Morpurgo Thomas Peaceful has had a very difficult life from the time of his birth. His father died when he was young from a logging accident that he felt was his fault. He lived with a very close family that had a lot of hardships threw there days on the estate that they lived and worked on. Of all the family Thomas had his brother Charlie was his best and only true friend he had. His older brother Charlie had stood up and watched after him ever since they were just kids. Charlie had stood up to a bully in grade school for Thomas and took the punishment also ever since that moment Thomas knew that Charlie would always be there. There was a girl named Molly that also lived on the estate and became friends with the brothers threw school. They spent almost everyday together always playing and was the center of Thomas’s attention. Little did he know that his brother Charlie also had the same desire for Molly that Thomas did. Thomas’s mom had to go work as an assistant at the estate which took up her time at home. Thomas and his brothers had to start to look up for themselves so they started poaching on the Colonels land illegally. When the Colonel discovered what they were doing on his property he was outraged and punished them he also threatened about what he would do if he were to ever catch them doing this again. The time came when Charlie and Molly would be done with school and would go have to work on the estate. One evening Charlie shared with Thomas of what he did and he lost his job on the estate. By this time Thomas was also out of school so they both went and worked together on a local dairy farm. Then it happened. World War I broke out across Europe and the Colonel forced every able man above seventeen on the estate to volunteer in the war. Thomas was only sixteen at the time and lied about it in order to go to war and fight beside his brother. That decision changed his life forever.

Private Peaceful was an excellent book and was extremely interesting. The book continued to keep my attention and I never wanted to put it down and stop reading it. I would recommend this to anyone but especially to someone who might be interested in war the world wars in specific. I would even recommend it to girls because the book also contains a love life between a pregnant woman and a solder fighting the war. The book allows you to have a deeper respect for the solders of that war and of any war because of what they went threw.