{"product_id":"war-is-beautiful-james-neugass-9781595584274","title":"War Is Beautiful: An American Ambulance Driver in the Spanish Civil War","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe newly discovered journal of an award-winning poet's experience on the front lines as a member of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade--\u003cem\u003eAll Quiet on the Western Front\u003c\/em\u003e for the Spanish Civil War\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn 1937, James Neugass, a poet and novelist praised in the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, joined 2,800 other passionate young Americans who traveled to Spain as part of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade--an unlikely mix of artists, journalists, industrial workers, and intellectuals united in their desire to combat European fascism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlthough rumors persisted over the years that Neugass had written a memoir, the manuscript of \u003cem\u003eWar Is Beautiful\u003c\/em\u003e, a nuanced and deeply poetic chronicle of his service as an ambulance driver, did not come to light for sixty years, until a bookseller discovered it among papers in a New England house once occupied by the radical critic and editor Max Eastman. The memoir combines fast-paced accounts of darting onto battlefields to pick up the wounded with elegiac renderings of days spent \"on alert\" in an ever-changing series of sharply observed Spanish towns, enduring that most difficult of wartime activities: waiting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished now for the first time, \u003cem\u003eWar Is Beautiful \u003c\/em\u003eis poised to take its place alongside works by Erich Maria Remarque, Ir鈩e N駑irovsky, Wilfred Owen, and George Orwell as a transcendent contemporaneous rendering of wartime life. It includes some of Neugass's own photos taken while in Spain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e James Neugass\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1595584277\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781595584274\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/11\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.34lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.46h x 6.22w x 1.02d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/15\/2008 pg. 989\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2008 pg. 83\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/15\/2008 pg. 16\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/24\/2009 pg. 11","brand":"James Neugass","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43991656136959,"sku":"9781595584274","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f0c57dd7-de0e-44da-9d3f-361bf03ed25f.jpg?v=1683311514","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/war-is-beautiful-james-neugass-9781595584274","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}