{"product_id":"2940013923379","title":"THE BOY ALLIES WITH HAIG IN FLANDERS","description":"CHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA NEW USE FOR A DICTAPHONE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe rain fell in torrents over the great battlefield, as Hal Paine and\u003cbr\u003eChester Crawford, taking advantage of the inky blackness of the night,\u003cbr\u003ecrept from the shelter of the American trenches that faced the enemy\u003cbr\u003eacross \"No Man's Land.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the trenches themselves all was silence. To a spectator it would\u003cbr\u003ehave seemed that the occupants were, either dead or asleep; yet such\u003cbr\u003ewas not the case.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is true that most of the men had \"turned in\" for the night, sleeping\u003cbr\u003eon their arms, for there was no means of telling at what moment the\u003cbr\u003eenemy might issue from his trenches in another of the night raids that\u003cbr\u003ehad marked this particular sector for the last few weeks; but the ever\u003cbr\u003evigilant sentinels stood watch over the sleeping men.  They would sound\u003cbr\u003ean alarm, should occasion demand, in ample time to arouse the sleepers\u003cbr\u003eif an enemy's head appeared in the darkness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHal and Chester, of course, left the American trenches with full\u003cbr\u003eknowledge of these sentinels; otherwise they might have been shot.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOnce beyond the protecting walls of earth, they moved swiftly and\u003cbr\u003esilently toward the German trenches less than a hundred feet away --\u003cbr\u003ejust the distance from the home plate to first base on a baseball\u003cbr\u003ediamond, as Hal put it -- ninety feet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese two lads, who now advanced directly toward the foe, were\u003cbr\u003elieutenants in the first American expeditionary force to reach France\u003cbr\u003eto lend a hand in driving back the legions of the German Emperor, who\u003cbr\u003estill clung tenaciously to territory he had conquered in the early\u003cbr\u003estages of the great war.  These boys had, at one time, been captains in\u003cbr\u003ethe British army, and had had three years of strenuous times and\u003cbr\u003eexciting adventures in the greatest of all wars.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTheir captaincies they'd won through gallant action upon the field of\u003cbr\u003ebattle.  American lads, they had been left in Berlin at the outbreak of\u003cbr\u003ehostilities, when they were separated from Hal's mother.  They made\u003cbr\u003etheir way to Belgium, where, for a time, they saw service, with King\u003cbr\u003eAlbert's troops.  Later they fought under the tricolor, with the\u003cbr\u003eRussians and the British and Canadians.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47152698294512,"sku":"2940013923379","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013923379_p0.jpg?v=1763597316","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013923379","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}