{"product_id":"9781469745312","title":"Autumn 1943","description":"By autumn 1943 in Danton, Kentucky, the government has converted the small town's college into an Army Air Corps pre-preflight facility, the nearby state mental hospital into a treatment center for soldiers suffering battle fatigue, and installs a satellite POW camp in the south end of town. Major Sam Ross, a fighter pilot shot down and badly wounded in Tunisia, arrives to take command of the school. Ross, also an excellent musician, has a chance encounter with a widowed schoolteacher with whom he falls in love but faces possible rejection because of her teenage son. Woven into the story are the accounts of an anti-Nazi German prisoner of war who, fearing for his life, escapes one POW camp and tries to get to the Danton POW facility; attempts to heal battle fatigue, especially a case involving a heinous crime perpetrated by German captors on a U.S. soldier later liberated; an itinerant evangelist gassed in France in WWI and his musically gifted wife; the wisdom of a one-legged, railroad-crossing watchman, a veteran of the Spanish-American War; the searching for meaning by a ministerial student; a night-club\/big-band songstress; and how it was in small-town U.S.A. in the precise time-frame of autumn 1943.","brand":"iUniverse, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47130476314864,"sku":"9781469745312","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781469745312_p0.jpg?v=1763699991","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781469745312","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}