{"product_id":"2940012588791","title":"Telegram: A Wartime Novel About Peace","description":"It’s 1944. Sauli Berglund watches from the edge of his property as ninety-six German POWs arrive at a work camp on Big Bear Lake. \u003cbr\u003eThese young German soldiers, so full of life, so healthy, so very safe. And they would remain so. He watched them dodge no bullets. He watched them wipe no blood from their hands. He watched the tears they wouldn’t shed for the friends who wouldn’t die in their arms. Here, they were an ocean away from the battle. Here, they ate hot food every day. Here, they enjoyed their lives in the very place Sauli had raised his children. \u003cbr\u003eHis mind sees a little boy, Ronnie, laughing, jumping off the dock into the cool water. “Ronald Berglund, Lieutenant, U.S.Navy,” the telegram had read. “Missing in action.” \u003cbr\u003eA father protects his children; that’s what a father does. He wraps his powerful arms around them, pulls them against his chest where they’re safe. And as long as they are safe, so is he. But when they’re not? \u003cbr\u003eThree more telegrams will find the Berglund family before the war is over, but Sauli doesn’t know that yet. Nor does he know that Anni, his fiery daughter, will fall in love with a German POW or that someone close to the Berglunds will fan the flames of intolerance that threaten to engulf the community and harm Sauli’s family. What Sauli does know is that on the home front, in the Suomi Hills, there are no lengths to which he will not go to protect his family.\u003cbr\u003eWars are not always fought on the battlefield; the combatants are not always soldiers.\u003cbr\u003eAnd telegrams are not always bad news.","brand":"Argus Enterprises International","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47081524822256,"sku":"2940012588791","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012588791_p0.jpg?v=1763570340","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012588791","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}