{"product_id":"2940151996822","title":"Gideon's War: A Tale of the Rough Riders","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Gideon’s War: A Tale of the Rough Riders\" is a classic tale of a young boy forced to grow up fast in a war he has no business waging.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Gideon puts it:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The war with Spain. The war for Cuban independence. It seems like such a little thing. It lasted one short summer. We won every battle, and were home for harvesting. It cost us exactly 365 deaths in combat.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"We fought it with an army that was mostly boys who’d never given a thought to war until it was upon us. Then we leapt to arms, though our arms were outdated and worn. We marched to two-steps and Civil War camp songs. Then we came home, most of us with our single-shot rifles still unfired, our antique sabres bright and unused.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A dog-and-pony show, most of it. That’s the myth. And as Chance Vavasour once said, ‘A myth is something that is true whether it ever happened or not.’\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Short Fuse Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47183041560816,"sku":"2940151996822","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940151996822_p0.jpg?v=1764017155","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940151996822","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}