Barbed Wire And Cherry Blossoms Anita Heiss by Anita Heiss 9781925184860, 1925184862 instant download after payment.

'Meticulously researched, and the result is Heiss's great achievement: the reader is transported in place and time.' – The Australian
'Tact and intelligence are sustained to the end of this bold novel of the wartime home front' — Sydney Morning Herald
'With deftness and a lightness of touch ... Heiss's strengths as a writer are on full display' – The Conversation
A story about a love that transcends all boundaries, from one of Australia's best loved authors.
5 AUGUST, 1944
Over 1000 Japanese soldiers break out of the No.12 Prisoner of War compound on the fringes of Cowra. In the carnage, hundreds are killed, many are recaptured, and some take their own lives rather than suffer the humiliation of ongoing defeat.
But one soldier, Hiroshi, manages to escape.
At nearby Erambie Station, an Aboriginal mission, Banjo Williams, father of five and proud man of his community, discovers Hiroshi, distraught and on the run....