"I tell you, my friends,’ he said one day. ‘I tell you that I am the only sane man in the regiment. It’s the others that are mad, but they don’t know it. They fight a war and they don’t know what for. Isn’t that crazy? How can one man kill another and not really know the reason why he does it, except that the other man wears a different colour uniform and speaks a different language? And it’s me they call mad!"

You may also like:

• 

  Anne Fine
  Writer

• 

  David Almond
  Author

• 

  Jacqueline Wilson
  Writer

• 

  Jeremy Irvine
  Film actor

• 

  Malorie Blackman
  Writer

• 

  Michael Rosen
  Novelist

• 

  Quentin Blake
  Cartoonist

• 

  Roald Dahl
  Novelist

• 

  Steven Spielberg
  Film director