I Was There... Alone In The Trenches

by Vince Cross

I Was There... Alone in the Trenches tells the incredible true story of a young girl lost in the trenches and how the soldiers she met there helped her find her family. Brilliantly reimagined by My Story author, Vince Cross, readers aged 7+ will love this vivid first-hand account of a child's experience of WWI.

128 pages, Paperback

First published September 4, 2014

Reviews

[The Library Mouse Tales · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is from a series called ‘I Was There…’ It is one of a range of stories that introduce younger readers (7-9 years old) to events from history and help them understand the past by imagining that they were there themselves.

This particular book tells the exciting true story of a young girl, called Annette, who was lost in the trenches during World War One when she was only 9 years old. She goes to the local shop to buy food for her family but gets lost while trying to escape the bombing of her town (Ypres in Belgium). She has to get help from the soldiers she meets to get safely back to her family.

I enjoyed the book. It is interesting and teaches you things about WWI in a child-friendly way. I enjoy learning about events in history especially when they are told from a child’s point of view. Books like this (written from a child’s perspective) also help us understand how the lives of normal people were affected during the War.

[Layla · Rating 1 out of 5]

This was a did not finish, it was a child’s book / story about WW1, with sone* historical facts mixed in throughout the book. Works like trench then a. Explanation at the end of the book. It didn’t hold my interest. Little girls goes shopping for her mum and end up on the front lines. As she gets into a wagon that gets taken to the* front*

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