Warrior is the true account of a remarkable horse told by his owner General Jack Seely.  No horse and rider can ever have been through such a sustained series of adventures as Warrior and Jack Seely.  They walked off the boat together at Le Havre in August 1914 to join the infamous Western Front and Warrior finally returned unscathed to his native Isle of Wight Christmas 1918.

 

Sixteen years later Jack Seely wrote the story as "My Horse Warrior" illustrated by the legendary Alfred Munnings who had been offical War Artist to the Canadian Cavalry which Seely and Warrior had led.

 

Warrior was a bay gelding bred from Jack Seelys' own mare Cinderella and who foaled in the spring of 1908 at Brooke in the west of the Isle of Wight.  In many ways the real life Warrior is socially the complete opposite of Michael Morpurgos' fictional Joey, the star of 'War Horse' who had so beguiled first readers, then theatregoers and now is set global in Steven Spielbergs' film.  

And yet their single most attractive quality is one that is equally shared.

It is the simple, unspoken, uncomplaining nobility of the Horse from which man and women have drawn such inspiration down the ages.

 

Warrior, first published in 1934, is an amazing true, story. It is told by Winston Churchills frriend. Jack Seely, about the horse he took to France in 1914, surviving four years of bombs and bullits to lead a cavalry charge in 1918 before returning home  where they rode together until 1938, their combined ages totalling 100.  The book tells the whole history of Warrior from his birth in the Isle of Wight to his astonishing life as a famous War Horse and how a combination of both the horse's extraordinary character and some unbelievable twists of fate, helped him survive a war which claimed the lives of eight million horses and mules.