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Blitz Cat (Piper S)

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No, this book isn't about a cat who can think or talk. It is more about the people who this cat come in contact with. I found this book in my grade school library, and it is the first book I found there worth reading. Beautifully written, this book talks of the pains of war, the emotions of its characters, and a cat who is just trying to get home. This is a must read for anyone who enjoys a smoothly paced book with a wonderful plot.

This is one exrodinary book. This book combines the tragedy of WWII with the humor of several odd europeans. The cat is merely another character that joins together the basic outlines of True stories. Even if you aren't a cat lover or aircraft fanatic you can still enjoy the odd (and sometimes drunken) europeans. I am not usually such a book worm, but this book has turned me into such (only for this particular book though). Though I am in only jr. high this is by no means a kids book. It will most adults guessing at the constant flow of long past and forgotten terms and phrases. Yet this book does not include the graphic descriptions often related to wartime stories. The thing that most interested me was that all the stories were based around true ones. Sam

When lord Gort's owner leaves to become a fighter piolet she is left with a spraling child and a bad mother and so she decides to go after him. on lord Gort's journeys she is faced with many dangers and makes many more new friends. This was a realy cool book and I realy enjoyed it.

This is a great book about a cat finding its way around during the world war. It gives the cats view of what is going on. Has excellent details and is extremely interesting! I recommend this book be read by everyone...Blitz Cat is a great story with a great plot, it goes through an enourmous range of emotions, and is a definte must read!

The book takes you through England in the second world war through the eyes of a cat. You meet the people and are attatched to them even though they are in the book for a short time. I loved the story.

While I recognize that Peter J. Lusby has a right to his opinion I disagree with him on so many points.

In my opinion, I don't think Mr Westall was even thinking of an anti-war stance. He was telling a story as it could have/did happen.

I do not think the story, "dwelt excessively on the horrors of war." He simply recounted what took place.

Did Mr. Lusby go searching through the book to find those descriptive passages he quoted?

What about the uplifting material?

In my opinion, I don't think Mr Westall chose, "to focus on the ugliness, on the opportunism, on the occasional, inevitable breakdown of human decency."

I found Blitz Cat to be a remarkable story. I couldn't put it down.

Perhaps it is a little advanced for younger readers but I don't think it deserved such a negative review.

Blitz Cat tells the story of a cat who separated from its owner determines to find him... and along the way we are introduced to all the people he encounters on his journey.

Yes, there is tragedy but there is also joy.

I recommend this book most highly.

this book was very good. It was a compeling story of a cat named lord gort who tries to find his way home. He is many miles from home and he makes his way throught many sad and rough parts of the war. On his way he meets many people of all ages and shares his story. I would recomend this book to many people of all ages.

Blitz cat is a great and detailed story about a cat who runs away from home during the war to find her true owner. Along the way she meats many friends,has many kittens and brings good and BAD luck to people she meets.

This book won the "Smarty Award" for children's literature in the 9-11 year old age group. If you understand that literary awards are given for political correctness, not literary merit, you'll know what's going on

The book is actually a rattling good yarn about life on the Home Front in World War II. The only problem is that it is written from the anti-war perspective of the 1980s. As a result, it dwells excessively on the horrors of war, especially the war in the air, with great emphasis on the gruesome details of what happens to people on the ground when bombs go off:

" ... the metal was all buckled and shiny where the bullets had knocked the paint off... And red seeped from the holes. A drop fell on his hand, and he licked it and it tasted of blood... "

"... a fireman being led by two others, his face like a cooked steak and his pale eyes unseeing, rolling in all directions..."

"... in the dim light of the distant fire he saw the dried foam around [the horses'] mouths, the tiny burns and wounds from the cinders..."

"... she went up in tiny bloody morsels for the birds to eat off the trees and the telegraph wires..."

" ... the man in the road was blown into eight separate pieces; head, torso, limbs flew up like curving birds..."

Is this the kind of thing you want your nine to eleven year old reading?

I was born in London, less than 4 years after WWII ended. The war dominated my childhood. I grew up with the people who lived through the blitz. And I heard and read story after story of the heroism and courage of ordinary people. Mr Westall chooses, instead, to focus on the ugliness, on the opportunism, on the occasional inevitable breakdown of human decency. Anything to make the politically correct point that war is ugly. Evidently Nr Westall never heard of John Stuart Mill, the rather pathetic english philospher whose one great statement amongst all the rubbish he spouted was

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."

Did I enjoy the book? Yes I did. Would I recommend it to mature discerning adults for a slice of reality of life on the Home Front in WWII? Of course! Would I give it to my grand kids to read? Not just "no", but "hell no!!" Not until they're in their twenties!