{"product_id":"9781781323571","title":"The Man on the Mantelpiece","description":"On the first day of World War Two Jim begins a diary. An ardent eighteen-year-old pacifist, nothing will persuade him to fight.\u003cp\u003eSeventy years later his daughter discovers his writing. After a month the entries cease until, two years later, he begins again. Now he is a married man and has volunteered for RAF Bomber Command. Janet has a mystery to solve. Why did he change his mind? What happened to the man she has only known as the young hero in his photo on the mantelpiece?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollowing in his footsteps throughout his training and first bombing raid, Janet compares the diaries with her own impressions of life then and now. In the twenty-first century when Jim's generation is all but gone, she traces her father's struggle and finds the reason she never knew him...\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Silverwood Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47062331654384,"sku":"9781781323571","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781781323571_p0.jpg?v=1763715178","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781781323571","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}