In 1914, a colt named Joey (who narrates this tale) is sold into a drunken character. The farmer’s 15-year-old child, Albert, is usually thrilled. He names and cares for Joey and defends the animal through the farmer’s drunken rages. If the family starts to feel the financial impact of war, Albert’s father privately sells Joey to an military services officer named Captain Nicholls. Albert discovers and begs the chief to let him join the army. Albert is too young, but Nicholls promises for taking good care of Joey intended for him.
True to his expression, Nicholls snacks Joey very well and drawings him intended for Albert.
He’s proud of his new equine. Though Joey still lovingly remembers Albert, he grows to just like his fresh life and master. This individual develops a friendship with another equine, Topthorn, who also belongs to Nicholls’ friend, Captain Stewart. The horses and men are shipped international for battle. Departing the ship in France, the soldiers observe the sadness and accidents all around them.
They shortly face their particular battle, and Captain Nicholls is slain. A young trooper named Warren becomes Joey’s new owner. Joey and Topthorn excel in battle, but the Germans capture Warren and Stewart and their wall mounts.
Though the horse no longer have honor of serving the cavalry, their duties of pulling carts full of injured German military earn all of them praise and good care from the men. An old farmer fantastic granddaughter, Emilie, dote around the horses too. When the German born army movements out of the place, Emilie and her grandfather get to keep your two horses. Joey and Topthorn happen to be content to operate the plantation until one more band of soldiers requires them. They may become workhorses below worse circumstances than they’ve ever knowledgeable. They develop thin and weak but are nursed to health inside the spring by a man called Friedrich.
Joey is emaciated when Topthorn dies of exhaustion and Friedrich passes away in battle later that day. Exclusively and terrified, Joey gets injured over a barbed fencing and wanders into “no-man’s-land between the German born and English camps. 1 man from each side comes out to help him. During the two soldiers’ brief dialogue, they understand they are very much alike and the war might be needless if two people like them could just sit back and speak it out. The English jewellry wins the coin toss for Joey and requires him returning to camp. Joey is reunited with Albert, who is now an army vet orderly. Joey and Albert return residence.
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