HarperTrophy, Toronto, 2008, 1^st pr thus.  ISBN 978-0-00-639570-6.  MMPB, 323+ pages.  Unread copy, no remainder mark, small ding at spine bottom; pages lightly tanning.  Winner of the Saskatchewan Book Award for Children’s Literature.  ‘Edward Bathe is sixteen:  too young to join the Great War, but too old to feel that he can let the Germans get away with killing his brother.  Desperate for revenge and blinded by romantic ideals of war, he ignores his father’s wishes and enlists.  To Edward’s disappointment, he is given horse-training duty in England, far from the front-line action across the Channel.  His only consolations are Buke, his horse, and Emily, the pretty young nurse he befriends.  Things change when he is finally granted permission to join a mounted regiment, and Edward is especially excited to leave England to actually take up arms.  But he is totally unprepared for the destination – and the horrors of war that are so unlike anything he has ever experience on the Saskatchewan prairie.’ (from rear wrap)