The new graded readers series of original fiction, adapted fiction and factbooks especially written for teenagers. It is 1936 and Europe is on the road to war. Freddie is a working-class English boy who is desperate for more excitement in his life. When he reads about foreign volunteers heading to the war in Spain, he knows what he must do. This paperback is in British English. It is also available with a CD-ROM /Audio CD with vocabulary games and complete text recordings from the book.