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Walter Tull: Footballer, Soldier, Hero

Band 17/Diamond

Dan Lyndon author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers

Published:5th Jan '11

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Walter Tull was a successful footballer and officer in the British Army in World War One. These achievements are even more exceptional because Walter was Afro-Caribbean, succeeding in a world that still considered black people inferior. Follow him from the orphanage to the football field and final days in the trenches, in this inspiring biography.

  • Diamond/Band 17 books offer more complex, underlying themes to give opportunities for children to understand causes and points of view.
  • A biography
  • A timeline on pages 54 and 55 presents the key events in Walter Tull's life chronologically, allowing plenty of recapping and further discussion.
  • Curriculum Links: History: What was it like to live here in the past?
  • This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.

ISBN: 9780007336371

Dimensions: 210mm x 148mm x 6mm

Weight: 130g

56 pages