Private Peaceful — Reading Guide

Discussion Questions

• How does the structure of the novel — one night of memory — affect how you read it?
• When you discover why Tommo is awake at the start, does it change how you reread the earlier chapters?
• Was Charlie right to refuse the order? What would you have done?
• Morpurgo based this on real events. Does knowing it is based on truth make it more or less powerful?

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