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For more than four thousand years, the horse and rider have been an integral part of warfare.

Michael Morpurgo wrote the book War Horse, which follows a farm horse named Joey who is sold to the British army through war battles as the boy who loves him.

Story of the truest friendships surviving in terrible times.

War Horse by Michael Morpurgo (1982).

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War Horse (novel)

Book by Michael Morpurgo

War Horse is a British war novel by Michael Morpurgo. It was first published in Great Britain by Kaye & Ward in The story recounts the experiences of Joey, a horse bought by the Army for service in World War I in France and the attempts of year-old Albert, his previous owner, to bring him safely home.

It formed the basis of both an award-winning play () and an acclaimed film adaptation () by Steven Spielberg. The novel is often considered one of Morpurgo's best works, and its success spawned a sequel titled Farm Boy, which was published in October

Genesis

After meeting a World War I veteran, Wilfred Ellis, who drank in his local pub at Iddesleigh and who had been in the Devon Yeomanry working with horses, Morpurgo began to think of telling the story of the universal suffering of the Great War through a horse's viewpoint, but was unsure that he could do it.^[1] He also met another villager, Captain Budgett, who ha