TY - BOOK AU - Morpurgo,Michael AU - Foreman,Michael TI - An eagle in the snow SN - 9780008134174 PY - 2015/// CY - London PB - HarperCollins Children's Books KW - Railroad travel KW - Children's fiction KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - War fiction KW - lcgft N2 - The extraordinary story of the man who could have stopped World War Two. A beautiful moral thriller from one of the world's favourite storytellers. 1940. Barney and his mother, their home destroyed by bombing, are travelling to the country when their train is forced to shelter in a tunnel from attacking German planes. There, in the darkness, a stranger on the train begins to tell them a story. A story about Bobby Byron, the most decorated soldier of WW1, who once had the chance to end the war before it even began, and how he tried to fix his mistake. But sometimes the right thing is hard to see and even harder to live with ER -