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Establishing the usefulness of //War Horse// novel to historians studying the ways in which horse were applied during World War One requires a focus on Tactic, the insanity of the war and Stalemate, all conveyed by the author Michael Morpurgo.

Starting at the outbreak of the war, armies such as the British had mainly envisaged cavalry charges. Although the war saw a whole new era of technology and battle, making the use of horses in the war was completely insane.

The novel can be used as a starting point if its assertions are tested against a wider range of evidence, such as textbooks, documentaries etc. Using Michael Morpurgo’s non-fictional work, written for an young adolescent audience, and through a horse’s perspective to study use of horses in the First World War, though sometimes inaccurate, surprisingly effective for the understanding of the horrors of the war.