{"product_id":"9788894170436","title":"Wingwatch - Illustrated Novel: On 6 June 1944 it was lost in Normandy. It is still there. Waiting for someone to bring it back home","description":"ILLUSTRATED NOVEL - INCLUDING PICTURES AND ADDITIONAL CONTENTS.\u003cbr\u003e**************************************\u003cbr\u003e6 June 1944, 0:02: Roger Englin is aboard an aircraft headed for Normandy. He is seventeen years old and has a mission to accomplish.\u003cbr\u003e31 May 2014, 15:12: Cédric Roussel is coming back home from the high school where he teaches history. He does not know it yet, but he has a mission to accomplish.\u003cbr\u003e6 June 2014, 0:02: Théo Roussel turned eight years old two minutes ago. He will think about his party later on. Now, he has an appointment. And a mission to accomplish.\u003cbr\u003eA paratrooper receiving his baptism of fire. A father who has never gotten over his greatest heartache. A young boy fighting his fear. Three people separated by space and time, yet they have something in common: a wristwatch, lost on D-Day and rediscovered seventy years later in an auction house catalogue.\u003cbr\u003eIt is Cédric who spots it on the internet, finding out that he more than anyone has a good reason to bid for it. Can it really be mere coincidence? The answer is a date with destiny that will challenge what he thought he knew about his own past.\u003cbr\u003eWingwatch is a tale of courage, a bridge between the heroes of yesterday and those of tomorrow, a voyage through time in the company of that most classic of time machines: a watch, whose rusted hands and faded dial measure more than just the limited span of a minute, an hour or a human life.\u003cbr\u003e*************************************\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in a text-only edition, Wingwatch is now available in a new illustrated version featuring over 130 pictures and a selection of additional contents. The reader will be able to visualize some of the objects, situations and places described in the text, as well as to have a look at the sites where history was made, and virtually meet up with three real protagonists of the events that inspired the novel.","brand":"Pressision S.A.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47063227334896,"sku":"9788894170436","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9788894170436_p0.jpg?v=1763779841","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9788894170436","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}