The heart-lifting heartbreaking new story by Michael Morpurgo the nations favourite storyteller. In the Imperial War Museum is a wooden Dachshund carved by a German prisoner of war for the children of the British family with which he stayed after the fighting ended. This is the story of how it got there...When the Bismarck sinks one of the only German survivors is taken on board a British ship as a prisoner of war. Sent to live with a host family Walter must adapt to a new way of life in the heart of an enemy country. Gradually though he finds a friend in ten-year-old Grace. So when the time finally comes to go back to Germany its an emotional parting with Walter leaving Grace with only a carved wooden dog to remember him by. The question is will Walter and Grace ever meet again? In 1966 with the World Cup coming to Britain that opportunity may just have come along...