I saw the grey soldiers ahead of us raise their rifles and heard the death rattle of a machine gun... A powerful story of the truest of friendships in the worst of wars from the award-winning master storyteller Michael Morpurgo. This edition includes 8 pages of colour photographs from the film. Paperback , Film tie-in edition , 182 pages Published November 7th 2011 by Egmont UK Limited (first published June 3rd 1982)