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Photo of a Young Soldier single work   short story   children's   war literature  
Issue Details: First known date: 1987... 1987 Photo of a Young Soldier
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  • In his autobiography My Strange Friend (1990, q.v.) Martin explains that 'Photo of a Young Soldier' is a reworking of an earlier story about his experience with the International Brigade during the Spanish Civil War, 'First Day'. The episode is also retold and commented in Martin's autobiography.

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    y separately published work icon Fox on My Door : A Journey through My Life David Martin , Blackburn : Collins Dove , 1987 Z524032 1987 single work autobiography young adult 'To enter the room where David Martin writes you must bang a door knocker shaped like a fox's head.
    Fox on My Door is a voyage round David Martin's study and a journey through a life of adventure. The explorers are his grandchildren, Toby and Sophie, and the drawing are by his son Jan.
    What a trip! It leads to a girl in Germany who just cannot tell David from his twin brother. To Greece, where sign language produces a ridiculous encounter. To the front line of a war in Spain. To India and a trainful of bandits - if that is what they are!

    And to Australia. There's a stock-whip in David Martin's study, a carved stick with a strange history, a clock that has made him enemies. But of all the things crammed into ti, what will he throw on the wheelbarrow when the bushfire roars across the hill?

    Fox on My Door is packed with true and exciting stories, and here one of our best writers for young people tells how he works and became what he is. There is strife and thoughtfulness, laughter and love.

    There are not many books quite like this one.' (Publisher's blurb)
         Blackburn : Collins Dove , 1987     pg. 67-78
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Related Works

The First Day David Martin , 1946 single work short story war literature
— Appears in: The Shoes Men Walk In 1946; (p. 112-124)
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  • 1937
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