{"product_id":"9781909840850","title":"Long Road to Baghdad","description":"\u003cp\u003eMesopotamia, 1914: in the Middle East tension is escalating between the British and the Arabs. Misfit Lieutenant Harry Downe is sent to negotiate a treaty with a renegade Bedouin Sheikh, Ibn Shalan, whose tribe is attacking enemy patrols in Iraq and cutting their oil pipelines.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGreedy for arms, Shalan accepts British weapons but, in return, Harry must take his daughter Furja to be his bride.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe secret marriage leads to a deep love, to the anger of Shalan and the disgust of Harry’s fellow officers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut war is looming, and the horrors of the battlefield threaten to destroy Harry’s newfound happiness, and change his life and that of his closest friends for ever.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLong Road to Baghdad is a vivid, moving, historically accurate account of a conflict between East and Western Empires, based on the wartime exploits of war hero Lieutenant Colonel Gerard Leachman.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Accent Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49860505043184,"sku":"9781909840850","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781909840850","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}