{"product_id":"9780571296200","title":"People of the Book","description":"\u003cp\u003e'\u003ci\u003ePeople of the Book\u003c\/i\u003e is set in the Thirty Years' War, which began and still shapes our present system of world order. David Stacton's  incomparable prose reveals how the treatises of scholars and the  tactics of commanders so rarely comprehend the vagaries of the human  condition. A book to put on the shelf with Thucydides' \u003ci\u003ePeloponnesian War\u003c\/i\u003e and Tolstoy's \u003ci\u003eWar and Peace\u003c\/i\u003e.'\u003cbr\u003eProfessor Charles Hill \u003ci\u003e(\u003c\/i\u003eauthor of\u003ci\u003e Grand Strategies: Literature, Statecraft, and World Order)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A troubling and fantastic book... Stacton sets up a duel plot. One follows the fortunes of the Swedish  King Gustavus Adolphus, the other recounts the fate of an orphaned boy  and his little sister who try to make their way across Germany from  their ruined home to refuge with an imagined uncle.' \u003ci\u003eLife\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'[An] extraordinary evocation of the whole spiritual climate of the time; the very vapours of Teutonic mists seem to rise from its pages.' Frederic Raphael, \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber and Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47124423639280,"sku":"9780571296200","price":16.03,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780571296200_p0.jpg?v=1763718936","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780571296200","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}