TY  - BOOK
AU  - 
TI  - The watermelon boys
SN  - 9789774168802
U1  - 813.03 21
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Cairo, Egypt
PB  - Hoopoe
KW  - English fiction 21st century
KW  - World War, 1914-1918 Campaigns Iraq Fiction
N2  - It is the winter of 1915 and Iraq has been engulfed by the First World War. Hungry for independence from Ottoman rule, Ahmad leaves his peaceful family life on the banks of the Tigris to join the British-led revolt. Thousands of miles away, Welsh teenager Carwyn reluctantly enlists and is sent, via Gallipoli and Egypt, to the Mesopotamia campaign. Carwyn's and Ahmad's paths cross, and their fates are bound
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