“But the moment we docked the mood changed…the soldiers fell silent and sombre as we walked past unending lines of wounded waiting to board the ship back to England.” The Soldiers were buoyant with optimism, as if they were embarking on some great military picnic” “There was all about us on the ship an air of great exuberance and expectancy. “It was a piteous and terrible sight to see a fellow creature with whom I had pulled for so long, discarded and forgotten in a ditch” “Heinie went that way one morning, and we passed him lying in the mud, a collapsed wreck of a horse and so eventually did Coco” “There was not a horse in the team that was not walking lame” The cold sinking mud and the lack of proper fodder through that appalling winter began to shrink his massive frame and reduced him within months to a poor skinny-looking creature.” “It was the giant Heinie who showed the first signs of weakness. “He had the nastiest temper of any horse I had ever met” “I shall be taking your horses with us…They look fine, strong animals and they will learn quickly.” “But the return to the peaceful life of a farm horse could not last long, but in the middle of that war.” “They saved good lives today, those two – good German lives and good English lives. “When noble creatures such as these are forced to become beasts of burden, the world has gone mad” “They are not circus animals, they are heroes, do you understand, heroes, and they should be treated as such” “A few horses were still struggling on the wire, but one by one they were put out of their misery by the advancing German infantry” “Horses reared and screamed in an agony of fear and pain” “A Horse hasn’t got no evil in him ‘cepting any that’s put there by men” “The thunder and dust and the roar of men’s voices in my ears took a hold of me and held me at a pitch of exhilaration had never before experienced” Key quotations for Michel Morpurgo’s War Horse broken down into key themes to support independent learning.
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