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Age 14 / by Geert Spillebeen ; translated by Terese Edelstein.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Dutch Publication details: Cork : Collins Press, 2010.Description: 220 p. ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9781848890565 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 839.3137 22
Summary: It is 1913 and 12-year-old Patrick Condon wants to escape his unexciting life in Ireland. So he hatches a plan. Not wanting to wait until he is old enough to join the army, Patrick lies and says he is 17-years-old and that his name is John Condon. Assuming the identity of his older brother, Patrick enlists.
List(s) this item appears in: War Stories | Irish Historical Fiction
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Fiction The Harden Library, King's Hospital Fiction Section F SPI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available R14153M0499

This translation originally published: Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2009.

It is 1913 and 12-year-old Patrick Condon wants to escape his unexciting life in Ireland. So he hatches a plan. Not wanting to wait until he is old enough to join the army, Patrick lies and says he is 17-years-old and that his name is John Condon. Assuming the identity of his older brother, Patrick enlists.

Translated from the Dutch.

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