{"product_id":"thunder-in-the-skies-derek-grout-9781459730939","title":"Thunder in the Skies: A Canadian Gunner in the Great War","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn extraordinary, newly discovered account from an ordinary Canadian on the ground in the crucial battles of the First World War.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat was it like to be a field gunner in the Great War? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Drawing on the unpublished letters and diary of field gunner Lt. Bert Sargent and his fellow soldiers, \u003ci\u003eThunder in the Skies\u003c\/i\u003e takes the reader from enlistment in late 1914, through training camp, to the Somme, Vimy Ridge, Passchendaele, the Hundred Days Offensive, and home again with peace.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePosted just behind the front lines, Sargent and field gunners like him spent gruelling months supporting the infantry in the trenches. Theirs was a very different war, as dangerous or more at times as the one on the front lines. As an ordinary Canadian writing letters home to ordinary people, Sargent gives a wrenching, insightful account of a tight-knit band of soldiers swept up in some of the most important battles of the war that shaped the twentieth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThunder in the Skies\u003c\/i\u003e details the daily life of artillerymen fighting in the First World War in a way no other book has before.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Derek Grout\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1459730933\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781459730939\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Dundurn Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/22\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 472\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.20d","brand":"Derek Grout","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46372375593215,"sku":"9781459730939","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_698af7c2-9976-4d21-977b-913cfa4879a6.jpg?v=1732725775","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/thunder-in-the-skies-derek-grout-9781459730939","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}