What is The Way of War, and What Is War Horse?

Sa？etak The paper focuses on the book and film War Horse, by the renowned English children’s writer Michael Morpurgo, rendered into Croatian as Put rata [The Way of War]. The writer is not sufficiently known among the Croatian reading audience, and Steven Spielberg’s film of the same title (by the way, neither adequately translated into Croatian) has not been satisfactorily noticed by the public. Morpurgo’s works are otherwise particularly interesting, since they usually mirror important global historical events in the background of the main actions, as is the case with the book of the original title War Horse where the backdrop is the First World War. The paper concentrates on the horse and the emphatic atmosphere of the book, but it also attempts to emphasise the eternal connection between man and this dignified and noble animal. In doing so, it seeks to encourage a different approach to the animalistic markers of this work, as well as of others in which the animal is an important or the main participant in the events