Arms and the Boy Arms and the Boy "Arms and the Boy" is a poem by Wilfred Owen. Like Owen's other famous poems, it deals with the atrocities of World War I; in it, he portrays the loss of innocence of a child in the midst of war. Thousands like the boy are drawn into the battlefield, to the tormenting visitations of war. <poem>"Let the boy try along this bayonet-blade How cold steel is, and keen with hunger of blood"</poem> It seems a wonder that a boy familiar with sticks and stones holds bayonets in the same hands and learns the coldness of death.
The Blue Boy (picture book) he's learned". The original was also translated into Japanese. An American English translation was published 1992 by Macmillan. Martin Auer first wrote the story for the German television series "Siebenstein" (ZDF). It was then published in book form by Beltz & Gelberg. The story is also part of the collection "The Strange War" by Martin Auer that has been translated in more than 25 languages. The Blue Boy (picture book) The Blue Boy is a children's picture book by Martin Auer, with illustrations by Simone Klages. It was first published in 1991 in German as "Der blaue Junge". The Blue