{"product_id":"9781462028733","title":"Scars of War","description":"\u003cp\u003eWar is not romantic. It is bleeding and dying and holding a lifeless comrade in your arms. It is storming a beach through a hail of bullets. It is fighter planes spiraling from the sky and Americans being taken captive. In \u003ci\u003eScars of War\u003c\/i\u003e, author Marilyn Swinson tells true and often horrifying stories of war.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Based on one-on-one interviews with more than forty veterans, all members of the Combat Airmen\/Joshua’s Troops of Mayodan, North Carolina, Swinson brings the narratives to life as the soldiers relay a variety of war experiences: a soldier aboard a ship moored at Pearl Harbor on that fateful December morning when Japanese bombs rained fire from the sky, and a seventeen-year-old young man forced to endure the horrors of the Bataan Death March, only to face three and a half years of torture and deprivation in Japanese concentration camps. A pilot lives to fly again after his plane hits the ground traveling three hundred miles per hour, igniting sixteen thousand pounds of jet fuel. A battle-weary Marine finally sees Old Glory raised on Iwo Jima.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eScars of War\u003c\/i\u003e provides a firsthand account of the pathos and pageantry of war from those who survived.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"iUniverse, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47141134008560,"sku":"9781462028733","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781462028733_p0.jpg?v=1763675609","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781462028733","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}