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    Where Soldiers Lie: India, 1857
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    Where Soldiers Lie: India, 1857

    By John Wilson

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    The Caught in Conflict Collection is an imprint of fast-paced, historically accurate, morally-complex quick reads for Adults and Teens. They can be read in any order.

    Jack O'Hara's parents are dead of cholera so he's farmed out to an aunt he's never met on the other side of the world from the Canada of his birth. He finds himself adrift and confused in a different world where everything—the sights, smells, food, customs, the complicated caste system—are radically different from what he is used to. But he's excited to learn. Trouble is, he may not live long enough.

    In the summer of 1857, northern India exploded in rebellion. Massacres become a regular occurrence and suddenly Jack and 1,000 soldiers, women and children find themselves fighting for their lives in a barren, inadequate entrenchment on the bare plain outside the city of Cawnpore. They expect relief any day, but as the siege drags on and the death toll rises, despair takes hold.
    Eventually, there is only one chance left for the survivors, surrender and trust that the rebels will supply boats on the Ganges River to allow them to escape.

    As Jack, his friend Tommy, and Alice, the girl he suspects he is falling in love with, stagger down to the river, they are about to be engulfed in a horror that, despite all they have been through, they can barely imagine. Will any escape?

    "This is an absolutely terrific book...Never lagging with a credible hero and an exotic setting which should engage both female and male readers...The pacing is flawless." Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction Jury Citation.

    "...the tension and action of the battle and the intense danger of the ...massacre will keep teen readers turning these pages." Quill & Quire.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJohn Wilson
    Release dateAug 15, 2011
    ISBN9781466094031
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    Where Soldiers Lie: India, 1857
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    John Wilson

    Qualified in agricultural science, medicine, surgery and psychiatry, Dr John Wilson practised for thirty-seven years, specialising as a consultant psychiatrist. In Sydney, London, California and Melbourne, he used body-oriented therapies including breath-awareness, and re-birthing. He promoted the ‘Recovery Model of Mental Health’ and healing in general. At Sydney University, he taught in the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, within the School of Public Health. He has worked as Technical Manager of a venture-capital project, producing health foods in conjunction with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). Dissenting from colonial values, he saw our ecological crisis as more urgent than attending urban distress. Almost thirty years ago, instead of returning to the academy, he went bush, learning personal downsizing and voluntary simplicity from Aboriginal people. Following his deepening love of the wild through diverse ecologies, he turned eco-activist, opposing cyanide gold mining in New South Wales and nuclear testing in the Pacific. Spending decades in the Australian outback, reading and writing for popular appreciation, he now fingers Plato, drawing on history, the classics, art, literature, philosophy and science for this book about the psychology of ecology – eco-psychology – about the very soul of our ecocidal folly.

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      This is a Red Maple nominee for 2007 and is set in India 1857. It is a thrilling and captivating tale of the Indian mutiny against the British. It is very descriptive and gory and probably best suited to males. Although I'm not a historical fiction lover, I enjoyed this book. Lots of action and I enjoyed the young narrator.