The heart-lifting, heartbreaking new story by Michael Morpurgo, The Nation's favourite storyteller. In the imperial war museum is a wooden dachshund, carved by a German prisoner of war for the children of the British fam...The heart-lifting, heartbreaking new story by Michael Morpurgo, The Nation's favourite storyteller. In the imperial war museum is a wooden dachshund, carved by a German prisoner of war for the children of the British family with which he stayed after the fighting ended.