Thanks all for the excellent pointers re books, articles and historical accuracy! Having finally watched the movie myself, I think I will hold off on letting DS7 see it. Some things in it are too intense for him at this point. But I WILL be giving/reading with him some of the titles you suggest. I think it would be eye-opening to him to see the impacts of war on people, and this is one that would be easy for him to relate to.
He's a little too "into" the idea of battles, weapons, strategy , war, etc.... I know this isn't unusual for youngsters. But, based on his extreme sensitivity, we've been pretty protective about not having him see nightly news, newspapers and other grim reality stuff. So he doesn't have much context to understand the horrors that come with the "exciting" stuff.
Thanks as always to you all,
Sue
