![]() ![]() 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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