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

Barbed Wire And Roses

Peter Yeldham

Paperback | Pages: 396 pages

Rating: 3.97 | 117 Users | 30 Reviews

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Title	:	Barbed Wire And Roses
Author	:	Peter Yeldham
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe 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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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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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

I loved The things we Cherished by Pam Jenoff and while I was reading the reviews for that book a Goodreads member said if you were looking for a good WW1 saga then read Barbed Wire and Roses. I searched high and low for this book - turns out it's an Australian author and only available over there. Called Kylee and she sent it to me! (Thank you sweetie!) I loved this book. I thought the love story was beautiful. I read the accounts of the war in horror! I'm so glad I tracked this book down and

Really enjoyed the wartime story - pulls no punches about the reality of shell-shock and the incompetence and arrogance of the officer class of the time. The modern day story - not so much. Meh. A good family history read.

The historical aspect of this novel was fascinating if a little confronting, however the addition of the present day love story ruined this for me. It felt tacky and badly planned. I felt this story should have spent more time focusing on the past and the uncovering of the story and less about weaving in a tasteless love tale, which, at times, seemed to overpower the lessons of the past, which are a far more important story to deal with.

Fantastic

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

The enthusiasm of the young volunteers to enlist and head to war was catching; the streets of Sydney were buzzing, and Stephen Conway found himself beside a young farmer named Bluey as they registered for training and the eventual journey to Gallipoli and beyond. But before Stephen left, he married his sweetheart Jane. Their four days of honeymoon in Katoomba in the Blue Mountains was over too quicklyGallipoli was the start of the horror of the trenches, the mud, the flies and death for Stephen