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100 1 _eauthor
245 1 4 _aThe watermelon boys
_cRuqaya Izzidien (Author)
264 1 _aCairo, Egypt
_bHoopoe
_c2018
300 _a352 pages
_c24 سم
336 _atext
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_3Book
337 _aunmediated
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_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
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520 _aIt 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
650 0 4 _aEnglish fiction 21st century
650 0 4 _aWorld War, 1914-1918 Campaigns Iraq Fiction
999 _c69156
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