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Barbed Wire And Roses

Peter Yeldham

Paperback | Pages: 396 pages

Rating: 3.97 | 117 Users | 30 Reviews

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Original Title:	Barbed Wire and Roses
ISBN:	0143007912 (ISBN13: 9780143007913)
Edition Language:	English

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It was exciting to be on our way at last...but we were such innocents. We had no idea of the hell that lay ahead. Even if we had known, what could we have done about it?

They were our golden youth, seeking adventure on foreign battlefields. The First World War in 1914, that everyone said would be over by Christmas, and Stephen Conway rushes to enlist in the belief he should fight for King and Empire. Leaving behind a new wife and a baby on the way, he soon finds himself in the trenches of Gallipoli. Four horrific years later, Stephen is the only survivor of his platoon, shellshocked and disillusioned, and during the heat of battle on the bloodstained fields of France, he mysteriously disappears.

Stephen's ultimate fate is still a mystery when more than eighty years later his grandson Patrick finds a diary that leads him to Britain and France on a journey during which he unexpectedly finds love, and the truth about his grandfathers's fate that is even stranger and more shocking that he imagined.

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Title	:	Barbed Wire And Roses
Author	:	Peter Yeldham
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 396 pages
Published	:	July 27th 2010 by Penguin Australia (first published 2007)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. War. World War I. Mystery

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The title is a bit misleading because it suggests a wartime romance and it's not.It's a good historical fiction with a dual timeline (WW1/2000) about the wartime experience (and trauma) of a young Australian soldier from the early months of the war to its aftermath.It can be a very good introduction for people who want to know more about Australia during WW1 and/or shell-shocked soldiers, with interesting references to the 1917 mutinies. The only faults are a bad editing regarding some of the

10/9 - Barbed Wire and Roses was an interesting book, a well researched and decently written book, a good book. Not fantastic, not riveting, but engaging enough to make me want to see it through to end, and I'm glad I did because I enjoyed it.There were a couple of occasions where I Felt like Yeldham was proudly displaying his vocabulary by using uncommon words where more well known ones would have worked just fine. Near the beginning of the book, not too far in to Stephen's first section

I seem to have been reading books that take place during WWI lately and the sheer horror of what the soldiers endured (not that any other war was ok or good on any level) just stops you in your tracks. Too many examples to list. I really liked the interlocking stories and the mystery aspect as a grandson tries to determine what happened to his grandfather believed to have died in battle.

I really enjoyed reading this book. I am left feeling deeply satisfied with the resolution for all the characters that I grew to love due to the way their stories were woven. The brutal reality of what war was like on the front line and how it affected our soldiers was humbling to say the least. Stephens story on its own would have made a great read, but Peter Yeldhams parallels between the two timelines made the novel all the more enjoyable and intricate.

This is the second time I have read this book and it was thoroughly enjoyed again. By the way, I normally dislike war novels, but this one, just affects me.My book club all agreed it was a great book and it had all of us thinking deeply about how war affected the soldiers and their families. It makes you realise just how horrifying and futile the war was (in this case Australians in WW1) , and makes you want to find out more. There are some WTF moments, it's hard to believe, a young man can



A great story of an Aussie soldier in WW1 and his family's search for the truth.Hard to put down.