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"Dark Terror is part adventure and part history, with just a touch of romance. It's a fast-moving, gripping take on a little-explored side of the [First World] war effort." CBRIn June 1915, young Alex Shorecross is trapped by a cave-in at a copper mine in Newfoundland. Facing possible death for a mere 13 cents an hour, Alec swears that if he survives he will find a different direction in his life. Unfortunately, options are limited and he is swept up in the naive enthusiasm for the possibilities of adventure in the First World War. In an ironic twist, his mining background lands him in a tunnelling company, working deep below the fighting in France. As his comrades push tunnels out beneath the enemy trenches and pack underground rooms full of explosives, it is Alec's job to listen for enemy activity that might bury them all forever under the Flanders' battlefields."Wilson ably evokes the claustrophobic, dark terror of the underground wand the coming of age of young men amid the battles…A fascinating…
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- Title Dark Terror
- Author John Wilson
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 208
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Doubleday Canada, Canada
- Date 2015
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780385678322 / 0385678320
- Weight 0.51 lbs (0.23 kg)
- Dimensions 8.19 x 5.47 x 0.64 in (20.80 x 13.89 x 1.63 cm)
- Ages 09 to 12 years
- Grade levels 4 - 7
- Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, Boys
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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