Coope Boyes & Simpson: keeping alive the memory of first world war victims

Coope Boyes and Simpson are angry and cynical: "Politicians will wave flags. It's easy to get into the pomp and glory of it, but we have to say what happened and why."
Coope Boyes and Simpson are angry and cynical: "Politicians will wave flags. It's easy to get into the pomp and glory of it, but we have to say what happened and why."
In previous wars these men would have died but the medical advances of the early twentieth century ensured that more and more of these men were able to live.
Michael Morpurgo on what he learnt about the first world war that made him write his book War Horse.