![]() ![]() ![]() My parents married during the war, but my father was deployed to Baghdad and my mother took up with someone else. There was a personal aspect to that history too. ![]() The fog of war itself had lifted but the debris was all around me.” My first image of the war itself was a one-legged soldier in a smart blazer decked out with medals sitting on a wet pavement, begging. “I was born in 1943,” he explains, “and my first impressions of the world was of a bombed place. "War is the history I was born with," he says, speaking over the telephone from his home in Bristol, and with the ease of the well-practised storyteller he recalls the childhood narrative that shaped him. Reflecting on a life in stories over more than 30 years, Morpurgo admits that this dominant preoccupation was surely inevitable. This year sees the publication of two new books about the second World War, both inspired by personal connections, and the revival of an Irish production of Private Peaceful, a stage-adaptation of his 2003 novel which unfolds on the frontlines of the first World War. Over the course of a career that has spanned more than 150 publications, writer Michael Morpurgo has returned to one theme more than any other: war. ![]()
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