{"product_id":"9781910670194","title":"Memoir of the Bobotes","description":"\u003cp\u003eA stirring account of war in the Balkans. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoyce Cary was 23 years old at the start of the Balkan War of 1912-1913. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA one-time art student in Edinburgh and Paris and newly down from Trinity College, Oxford he went through the war as a stretcher-bearer in the Red Cross. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShortly after his return, the possessor of the Montenegrin equivalent of the Military Cross, he wrote Memoir of the Bobotes without thought of publication. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is an extraordinarily vivid account of a forgotten war fought by peasants under primitive conditions - yet particularly fascinating today to readers with memories of later Balkan wars. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is both a moving and illuminating account of the war but it also offers a self-portrait of a young, upper-class Englishman - idealistic, sensitive, romantic - living in the belief that ‘there would be no more wars’.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Thistle Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50023695614192,"sku":"9781910670194","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781910670194","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}