{"product_id":"9781612004686","title":"Forest of the Hanged","description":"The Casemate Classic War Fiction Series publishers new editions of forgotten classics that perfectly capture their era.\u003cp\u003eDuring the First World War, just behind the eastern front, there was a forest, where Austrians and Hungarians used to hang deserters. To this place came Apostol Bologa, a young Romanian officer eager to serve his country. Born in a Romanian region of Transylvania which was then under Hungarian rule, he had naturally enough joined the Austro-Hungarian army. But soon Romania itself entered the war, and Bologa found himself fighting his own people. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForest of the Hanged asks a fundamental question about war: namely, why does a man fight? Apostol condemns an officer to death for desertion and attempting to give information to the enemy. He watches the execution of the officer with satisfaction until he witnesses a fellow soldier’s grief and pity for the dead man. At this point his world shifts. His growing self-doubt and uncertainty lead him to question beliefs he once held without question. Unprepared for his own reaction when he is once again called to sit on a court martial, he finds that he too must go to the forest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis very rare, richly descriptive novel lays bare the inner conflict engendered by a total war, yet seldom expressed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Casemate Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47064510660848,"sku":"9781612004686","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781612004686_p0.jpg?v=1763842712","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781612004686","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}