British and german prisoners of war, 191418 by yarnall, john and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Barbed wire and cherry blossoms, by anita heiss anz. Trew estimates they have some 7,000 artifacts, including cowboy hats made out of barbed wire, exhibits on the history of entanglement wire what trew calls war wire, and probably 100 or so posthole diggers. Barbed wire and cherry blossoms is set during a time in australias history when the government systematically repressed the traditional owners of the land. Unraveling the lesserknown history of the barbed wire.
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