{"product_id":"2940013415508","title":"GETTING TOGETHER","description":"CHAPTER ONE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor several months it has been the pleasant duty of the writer of the\u003cbr\u003efollowing deliverance to travel around the United States, lecturing\u003cbr\u003eupon sundry War topics to indulgent American audiences. No one--least\u003cbr\u003eof all a parochial Briton--can engage upon such an enterprise for long\u003cbr\u003ewithout beginning to realize and admire the average American's amazing\u003cbr\u003einstinct for public affairs, and the quickness and vitality with which\u003cbr\u003ehe fastens on and investigates every topic of live interest.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNaturally, the overshadowing subject of discussion to-day is the War,\u003cbr\u003eand all the appurtenances thereof. The opening question is always the\u003cbr\u003esame. It lies about your path by day in the form of a newspaper man,\u003cbr\u003eor about your bed by night in the form of telephone call, and is\u003cbr\u003esimply:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"When is the War going to end?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e(One is glad to note that no one ever asks _how_ it is going to end:\u003cbr\u003ethat seems to be settled.)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe simplest way of answering this question is to inform your\u003cbr\u003einquisitor that so far as Great Britain is concerned the War has only\u003cbr\u003ejust begun--began, in fact, on the first of July, 1916; when the\u003cbr\u003eBritish Army, equipped at last, after stupendous exertions, for a\u003cbr\u003egrand and prolonged offensive, went over the parapet, shoulder to\u003cbr\u003eshoulder with the soldiers of France, and captured the hitherto\u003cbr\u003eimpregnable chain of fortresses which crowned the ridge overlooking\u003cbr\u003ethe Somme Valley, with results now set down in the pages of history.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47082887905520,"sku":"2940013415508","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013415508_p0.jpg?v=1763581197","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013415508","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}