![]() ![]() ![]() Right and democracy finally triumph through supreme strategy and mighty sacrifice - by the few to whom the many will owe so much. The major battles, however, are fought against the dictator rabbit General Woundwort and his secret police. But only after racking hardships, narrow escapes and a bizarre sojourn at a sinister warren of welcoming fat rabbits who withhold their dreadful secret of inevitable execution. Led by Hazel, more of a William Bradford than a Moses, the group eventually reaches the promised land, Watership Down. ![]() (A signpost in human language announces a "development" of the field - the remaining rabbits will be subsequently gassed.) In this British tale (with impressive reviews as a juvenile over there) a pioneer group of wild rabbits reenact the rousing Exodus story/myth as the prophet Fiver senses disaster about to strike the home warren. ![]()
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