{"product_id":"2940148185864","title":"Forward Children!","description":"The title Forward, Children! comes from the opening line of La Marseillaise, the French national anthem (Allons, enfants de la patrie). Forward, Children! is a novel that was long in the making. Paul Alexander Bartlett completed the first manuscript of Forward, Children! in the years before the outbreak of the second world war. He had been deeply affected by the first world war, by the horrors and suffering it caused. Wishing to bring to readers a convincing and powerful first-hand experience of that war, he portrayed in the first version of Forward, Children! the hardship and terror of tank warfare as it had been conducted by the American Expeditionary Forces Tank Corps during World War I.\u003cbr\u003eRenowned English novelist, poet, and critic Ford Madox Ford thought highly of Forward, Children!, and shortly before his death devoted a large part of an essay published in the Saturday Review of Literature to praise for the novel, urging its publication.\u003cbr\u003e\"Forward, Children! ... is the projection of the life of a fighting soldier in the A. E. Tank Corps in France. It is so to the life that for some days after reading it, the writer's nights were rendered heavy by the return of the lugubrious dreams that for years after the signing of the Treaty of Versailles attended on his slumbers. When you read Forward, Children! you are in a tank crawling amidst unspeakable din and unthinkable pressure up the sides of houses, and down the banks of dried-up canals, crashing through the walls of factories....If not on artistic grounds then at least for the public weal this book should be published and widely circulated.\"\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bronson Tweed Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47078969901296,"sku":"2940148185864","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940148185864_p0.jpg?v=1763699053","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940148185864","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}