{"product_id":"going-to-the-wars-john-verney-9781589881310","title":"Going to the Wars: A Journey in Various Directions","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Delightful reading.\"―\u003ci\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This book is unclassifiable: commentary, autobiography, satire by turns: but it is wholly readable, wholly successful. The author stands spokesman for a whole generation.\"―\u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"My brother officers. Are they human?\" Thus reads the first journal entry of twenty-three-year-old John Verney, graduate of Eton and Oxford, lover of modern art and literature, who has, almost on a whim, joined a part-time cavalry regiment of the British Army in 1937. At the outbreak of World War II two years later, Verney arrives in the Middle East and there learns, almost in spite of himself, to be a soldier. In 1943, he becomes a parachutist and leads a \"drop\" into Sardinia to attack German airfields. His adventures there--two weeks wandering through enemy territory, his capture, and his eventual escape--are brilliantly told. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWoven into the fabric of this narrative of a young man growing reluctantly to maturity and coming to terms with military life, are Verney's thoughts and feelings about his wife, Lucinda, and the child he has never seen, and his longing to return to them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Verney\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1589881311\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781589881310\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul Dry Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/15\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 250\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.60d","brand":"John Verney","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43939839017215,"sku":"9781589881310","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_a64ebe48-45a8-4c8f-8288-02f3fe48410c.jpg?v=1681443788","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/going-to-the-wars-john-verney-9781589881310","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}